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Department of African & African American Studies
at Duke University

Richard Powell, Professor, Art & Art History & Visual Studies  

Richard Powell

Office Location: 104 East Duke Bldg
Office Phone: +1 919 684 2473
Email Address: richard.powell@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/~rp2

Specialties:
American, Afro-American and African Art

Education:
PhD, Yale University, 1988

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • VISUALST 221S.01, Black visual theory Synopsis
    East duke 204a, Th 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Linguists, Poets, and ‘Others’ on African American Art, American Art, vol. 17 (Spring, 2003), pp. 16-19 .
  2. Black Art: A Cultural History (2002), London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd. (Revised & expanded edition of Black Art & Culture in the 20th Century, 1997; Spanish translation: Arte y Cultura Negros en el Siglo XX, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, S.A., 1998.) .
  3. Appreciation. Jacob Lawrence: Keep on Movin’, American Art, vol. 15 (Spring, 2001), pp. 90-93 .
  4. To Be Real, in The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience (2001), pp. 13-15, New London, Connecticut: Lyman Allyn .
  5. Sartor Africanus, in Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture, edited by Susan Fillin-Yeh (2001), pp. 217-242, New York: New York University Press .