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Film, Video Textured Abstractions: Howardena Pindell's Cut & Sewn Paintings

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Title

  • Textured Abstractions: Howardena Pindell's Cut & Sewn Paintings

Summary

  • Sarah Cowan discusses the cut and sewn paintings of 1970s artist Howardena Pindell in the context of aesthetic debates engendered by the Black Arts Movement, the women's art movement and shifts in modernist criticism. Pindell's paintings used texture as a strategy for conveying her affinities for African culture, administrative and craft labor, feminine adornment and modernist art.

Names

  • Library of Congress

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2018-03-30.

Headings

  • -  art, aesthetics, culture, Black Arts, women's art, modernism, Howardena Pindell
  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Sarah Cowan.
  • -  Recorded on 2018-03-30.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690752

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress. Textured Abstractions: Howardena Pindell's Cut & Sewn Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-30, 2018. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690752/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress. (2018) Textured Abstractions: Howardena Pindell's Cut & Sewn Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-30. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690752/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress. Textured Abstractions: Howardena Pindell's Cut & Sewn Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-30, 2018. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690752/>.