Black Art-Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art

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Explores the various ways in which 20th-century African-American artists have approached the question “What is Africa to me?” These artists have looked carefully at a cultural legacy inherited from African ancestors and have interpreted that tradition in different ways according to their own unique experiences. Artists represented include Jean Lacy, James Phillips, Derek Webster, Ed Love, Charles Searles, Xenobia Bailey, Everald Brown, Willard Watson, and Lois Mailou Jones.