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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination
By Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 9781469667867
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on April 1, 2022 | Arts {}amp; Humanities
"I never left Charlotte [NC], except physically," Black artist Romare Bearden (1911–88) says in Gilmore's (emerita, history, Yale Univ.) adept reappraisal of Bearden's life and art. Bearden was a child in 1915 when his family fled racially charged Charlotte in the Jim Crow South for Harlem and Pittsburgh, after his Black father was falsely accused of kidnapping light-skinned Romare outside a store. Gilmore thoroughly researches Bearden's fami...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
