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THE DAVID C. DRISKELL SERIES BOOKOF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART:

VOLUME II

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As the debut volume in the highly anticipated David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, Charles White Sets remarkable standard for the other volumes to follow. Filled with drawings and paintings--many of which have never been published before-and scholarly text by Andrea D. Barnwell, this monograph encapsulates the spirit, vision, and extraordinary brilliance of Whites powerful art. Andrea D. Barnwell discusses White's regard as an artist and chronicles his career as he pursued artistic excellance, personl integrity, economic freedom, and racial equality. One of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, Charles White and his place in the annals of art history has not been adequately examined. Charles White (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: volume I) is an important step in ensuring the legacy of this seminal artist and singular man.

Considered one of America's premier assemblage artists, Betye Saar has been creating inspired pieces since the early 1960s, Her works are in teh collectons of many museum, including Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum and the California African American Museum; Metropolotian Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Betty Saar began her career with printmaking, enameling, and costume design and then expanded to three dimensional assemnlages and installations, exploring such subjects as mysticism, heritage, and women's work. The artist's imagery, drawnfrom social and political movements, spiritual systems, and visual cultures, blends black aesthetics, feminist art, and African Art with modern and postmodern movements.

Keith Morrison has been painting for more than four decades. His works are in the collectons of such prestigious institutions as the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the art Insititute if Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the World Bank, and the National Museum of American Art. He is also a writer, an art critic, a curator, and an academicin; presently he is Dean, College of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University. Morrison's works include both abstraction and figuration. Jamaican born, Morrison was exposed to traditional art at home; in the United States, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he studied figure drawing, painting, and printmaking, basing his style of abstraction on geometric forms, music, and geography. Sunsequently influenced by political events, emotionally charged situations, and cross-cultural sources, he then turned to figurative art. Keith Morrison continues to seek more visual challenges. His works are carefully planned, exhibiting a mastery of linear and aerial perspective; he presents a narrative, embellihing it with symnolism and history conveyed through articulate detail.

Archibald J. Motley Jr. devoted his career to portraying African Americans in order to create awareness and appreciation of African American culture among all races, regardless of racial identitiy, and to promote greater understanding of the fine arts among blacks. Motley was born in New Orleans and grea up in Chicago, studying at The Art Institute of Chicago. First working in portraiture, and philosophically influenced by W.E.B. Du Bois and Alian Locke, among others, he presented African Americans as stylish, cultured, and self-possessed, to rebut the prevailing racist notions about blacks. Motley gained national and international acclaim, but he was identified and lauded as a Negro painter, not recognized as the Regionalist or the painter of the American Scene that he was. He continually negotiated white and black expectations and definitions of African American identity.

Faith Ringgold has produced an amazingly diverse body of word, from oils to collages, thangkas to masks, posters to children's books. She is most famous for her quilts, hich combine painting, fabric, and narrative text. She has been awarded sixteen honorary doctorates, and she founded the Anyone Can Fly Foundation. The art produced by this Renaissance woman has been exhibited woman has been exhibited in major venues worldwide and collected by such prestigious institutions as The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Modern Artm the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the 1980s Ringgold began making her story quilts which redefined and expanded the possibilites for expressions in the textile arts. By the 1990s she was one of the foremost progressive American artists of the twentieth century and successful author. Today she pursues painting a series of jazz quilts and working on four books.