Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Powell, Richard J., 1953-
Title:: Cutting a figure : fashioning Black portraiture / Richard J. Powell.
Published / Created:: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description:: xvi, 276 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:: Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008012507-d.html
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.
Contents:: Introduction : posing while Black -- Interlocutors -- Luna obscura -- Barkley L. Hendricks's Afro-shrine -- The new Black portraiture -- Conclusion : beyond the bodies of evidence.
Subject Terms:: African Americans in art -- History. | African Americans -- Portraits. | Portrait drawing, American -- History. | Portrait photography -- United States -- History. | African Americans -- Race identity. | Fashion -- United States -- History. | Hendricks, Barkley L., 1945– | Luna, Donyale, 1945–1979.