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Richard J. Powell

Richard J. Powell

John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
richard.powell@duke.edu
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
114 Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse, Bay 9, A287C, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

The Brown Paper Bag Test

Journal article Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art · November 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna

Journal article Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art · November 1, 2016 The most iconic image that accompanied the 1996 publication of 20th Century Photography: Museum Ludwig, Cologne—and one that continues to intrigue scholars of black diasporic visual culture—was the German photographer Charlotte March’s black-and-wh ... Full text Cite

Research and imagine the American "black" art since 2005

Journal article Perspective France · January 1, 2015 Full text Open Access Cite

"Say it loud": An interview with Richard Powell

Journal article Callaloo · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture

Journal article ART BULLETIN · December 2013 Link to item Cite

The Woodshed

Journal article STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ART · 2011 Link to item Cite

'Paint That Thing!' Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism

Journal article American Studies · 2010 Cite

The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime

Journal article Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism · February 2008 Cite

PAINT IN THE NAME OF LOVE

Journal article INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART · 2008 Link to item Cite

Linguists, Poets, and ‘Others’ on African American Art

Journal article American Art · March 2003 Featured Publication Cite

Appreciation. Jacob Lawrence: Keep on Movin’

Journal article American Art · March 2001 Featured Publication Cite

On Alain Locke and James Porter

Journal article Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence · 1998 Cite

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

Journal article Art Bulletin · September 1, 1995 Cite

The Subject in/of Art History

Journal article Art Bulletin · September 1, 1995 Full text Cite

ART, HISTORY, AND VISION

Journal article ART BULLETIN · September 1995 Link to item Cite

IMAGES AND IDENTITIES + EDITORIAL - A BRIEF, INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Journal article INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART · 1994 Link to item Cite

The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored

Journal article New Observations · 1993 Cite

Margo Humphrey: Interview

Journal article Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence · 1987 Cite

William H. Johnson's Minde Kerteminde

Journal article Black American Literature Forum · 1986 Full text Link to item Cite

On Exhibit: Black Artists of the Nineteenth Century

Journal article The Chicago Reader · August 16, 1985 Cite

African Art at the Field Museum

Journal article African Arts · 1985 Full text Link to item Cite

Black Folk in America, 1930-1980

Journal article Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin · 1984 Cite

Current Expressions in Afro-American Printmaking

Journal article PrintNews · April 1981 Cite

The Afro-American Printmaking Tradition

Journal article PrintNews · February 1981 Cite

9/9

Journal article The New Art Examiner · June 1980 Cite

Houston Conwill

Journal article Neworld · February 1979 Cite

Talking to James Lesesne Wells

Journal article Print Review · 1979 Cite

Images and Identities: A Brief, Introductory Note

Journal article The International Review of African American Art Cite

Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman

Journal article The International Review of African American Art Cite