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5. Abstraction and Identity: Norman Lewis and the “Activity of Discovery”
Ruth Fine
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists
Norman Wilfred Lewis (1909–1979) was not alone among African American painters of his generation who embraced the contemporary concerns of Abstract Expressionism, often conflating and juggling in their work this commitment to abstraction and figure-based representation. In his “Thesis, 1946” in Norman...
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Ruth Fine
PublisherHarvard University Press
Copyright© 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.179-196
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17734
Chapter subject tags:African American artists--United States--20th centuryLewis, Norman, 1909-1979Abstract expressionism--United StatesHarlem RenaissanceJazz in art

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5. Abstraction and Identity: Norman Lewis and the “Activity of Discovery”