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Publications of Richard J. Powell    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Powell, RJ, Black Art A Cultural History (August, 2021), pp. 360 pages, London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., ISBN 9780500204665 (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.)  [abs]
  2. Caragol, T; Moss, D; Powell, RJ; Sajet, K, THE OBAMA PORTRAITS (January, 2020), pp. 1-140  [abs]
  3. Powell, R, Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020), pp. 240 pages, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300245745  [abs]
  4. Powell, R, Archibald Motley Jazz Age Modernist (October, 2015), ISBN 9780938989394  [abs]
  5. Powell, RJ, Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance (October, 2014), University of California Press
  6. Powell, RJ, African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond (2012), pp. 12-33 pages, Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum
  7. Powell, RJ, Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits (2009), pp. 8-15 pages, Amherst College
  8. Powell, RJ, Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries (2009), pp. 19-27 pages, Miller Publishing Company, Ltd.
  9. Powell, RJ, Cutting a Figure Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008), pp. 293 pages, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226677279  [abs]
  10. Powell, RJ, Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott (2005), University Press of Mississippi
  11. Powell, RJ, Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow (2002), High Museum of Art
  12. Powell, RJ, To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999), MIT Press
  13. Powell, RJ, Jacob Lawrence (1992), New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
  14. Powell, RJ, Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), New York: W. W. Norton
  15. Powell, RJ, From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the Washington Area (1989), Washington Project for the Arts
  16. Powell, RJ, James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art (1986), Washington Project for the Arts

Articles Published

  1. Caragol, T; Moss, D; Powell, RJ; Sajet, K, The Obama Portraits, in Art History and Beyond, in The Obama Portraits (2020), Princeton University Press
  2. Powell, R, Raymond Saunders, in Among Others Blackness at MoMA, edited by English, D; Barat, C (August, 2019), ISBN 9781633450349  [abs]
  3. Powell, R, Herve Telemaque, in Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, edited by English, D; Barat, C (2019), Museum of Modern Art
  4. Powell, RJ, The Brown Paper Bag Test, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, vol. 2018 no. 42-43 (November, 2018), pp. 234-249, Duke University Press [doi]
  5. Powell, R, Black Parnassus: Chicago in the Interwar Years, in Gordon Parks The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950, edited by Brookman, P (October, 2018), pp. 259-265, Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art, ISBN 9783958294943  [abs]
  6. Oliver, VC; Powell, RJ, Reminiscing: Valerie Cassel Oliver and Richard J. Powell in conversation, Callaloo, vol. 40 no. 5 (January, 2017), pp. 53-162 [doi]
  7. Powell, RJ, Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, vol. 2016 no. 38-39 (November, 2016), pp. 14-21, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]
  8. Powell, RJ, TWO PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, in The Seductions of Biography (January, 2016), pp. 89-97, ISBN 9780415910897 [doi]
  9. Powell, RJ, "Porch and Drawl", in Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, edited by Lash, M; Schoonmaker, T (2016), pp. 106-119, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
  10. Powell, RJ, "Wounded Zouave and the Cyrenian Paradigm", in The Civil War in Art and Memory, edited by Savage, K (2016), pp. 65-80, National Gallery of Art
  11. Powell, RJ, "I Talismani di Betye Saar", in Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer, edited by Marinetti, M (2016), pp. 233-241, Fondazione Prada
  12. Powell, RJ, "Les ames illustrees: W. E. B. Du Bois dans l'art contemporain", in The Color Line: Les Artistes Africains-Americains et La Segregation, edited by Soutif, D (2016), pp. 74-85, Flammarion
  13. Oliver, VC; Powell, RJ, "Richard Powell/'Say it Loud': An Interview with Richard Powell by Valerie Cassel Oliver", Callaloo, vol. 38 no. 4 (2016), pp. 985-995, Johns Hopkins University Press
  14. Powell, RJ, Rechercher et imaginer l’art « black » américain depuis 2005, Perspective no. 2 (December, 2015), pp. 81-94, OpenEdition [doi]
  15. Powell, RJ, "Dem Shoes": Thomas Hart Benton's Romance, in American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood, edited by Bailly, A (2015), pp. 83-87, Delmonico Books - Prestel, ISBN 978-3-7913-5422-4
  16. Powell, RJ, Probability Theory: David Hammons's Money Tree, in Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, edited by Wolin, Joseph R., (2015), pp. 42-49, The Skylark Foundation, ISBN 978-0-692-33572-7
  17. Powell, RJ, Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman, The International Review of African American Art, vol. 10 no. 3 (October, 2014)
  18. Powell, RJ, Images and Identities: A Brief, Introductory Note, The International Review of African American Art, vol. 11 no. 3 (October, 2014), pp. 6-6
  19. Powell, RJ, New Negroes, Harlem, and Jazz (1900-1950), in The image of the black in western art, edited by Bindman, D; Gates, HL (2014), pp. 53-104, Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674052697
  20. Powell, RJ, Walking on Water: Embodiment, Abstraction, and Black Visuality, in Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, edited by Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, (2014), pp. 1-19
  21. Powell, RJ, New Negroes, Harlem, and Jazz (1900-1950), in The Image of the Black in Western Art, V, Part 2: The Twentieth Century, The Rise of Black Artists (2014), pp. 53-104, Harvard University Press
  22. Powell, RJ, Freeman Henry Morris Murray: Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture, The Art Bulletin, vol. 95 (December, 2013), pp. 646-649
  23. Powell, RJ, "Foreword: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Devotional Memorial", in Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial, edited by Greenough, S; Anderson, N (2013), pp. xv-185, Yale University Press
  24. Powell, RJ, Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture, ART BULLETIN, vol. 95 no. 4 (2013), pp. 646-649, ISSN 0004-3079 [Gateway.cgi]
  25. Powell, RJ, "Foreword: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Devotional Memorial", in Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial (2013), pp. xv-185, Yale University Press
  26. Powell, RJ, "Tanner and Transcendence", in Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, edited by Marley, AO (2012), pp. 56-65, Berkeley: University of California Press
  27. Powell, RJ, "Herein Lie Buried Many Things: Screens, Entryways and Cabinets in Twentieth-Century Black Visual Discourse", in African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond (2012), pp. 12-33, Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum
  28. Powell, RJ, "Tanner and Transcendence", in Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit (2012), pp. 56-65, Berkeley: University of California Press
  29. Powell, RJ, "Herein Lie Buried Many Things: Screens, Entryways and Cabinets in Twentieth-Century Black Visual Discourse", in African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond (2012), pp. 12-33, Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum
  30. Powell, RJ, "Trembling Vistas, Primal Youth: William H. Johnson’s Painterly Expressionism, 1927-1935" & "Devotion and Disrepute: William H. Johnson’s Florence, South Carolina Paintings, circa 1944", in William H. Johnson: An American Modern (2011), pp. 22-101, University of Washington Press
  31. Powell, RJ, "The Woodshed", in Romare Bearden: American Modernist, edited by Fine, R; Francis, J, vol. 71 (2011), pp. 200-2006, National Gallery of Art, ISSN 0091-7338 [Gateway.cgi]
  32. Powell, RJ, "From Diaspora to Exile: Black Women Artists in 1960s and 1970s Europe", in The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, edited by Mathur, S (2011), pp. 78-90, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute
  33. Powell, RJ, The Woodshed, STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ART, vol. 71 (2011), pp. 199-206
  34. Powell, RJ, DEVOTION AND DISREPUTE William H. Johnson's Florence, South Carolina, Paintings, circa 1944, in WILLIAM H JOHNSON: AN AMERICAN MODERN (2011), pp. 88-101, ISBN 978-0-295-99148-1
  35. Powell, RJ, TREMBLING VISTAS, PRIMAL YOUTH William H. Johnson's Painterly Expressionism, 1927-1935, in WILLIAM H JOHNSON: AN AMERICAN MODERN (2011), pp. 22-39, ISBN 978-0-295-99148-1
  36. Powell, RJ, 'Paint That Thing!' Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism, American Studies, vol. 46 (2010), pp. 107-119
  37. Powell, RJ, "Unexpected Faces in Public Places", in Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits (2009), pp. 8-15, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
  38. Powell, RJ, "The Systems and Semiotics of Ras Ishi Butcher", in Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries (2009), pp. 19-27, Miller Publishing Company, Ltd., Edgehill, St. Thomas, Barbados
  39. Powell, RJ, "The Systems and Semiotics of Ras Ishi Butcher", in Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries (2009), pp. 19-27, Miller Publishing Company, Ltd.
  40. Powell, RJ, "Unexpected Faces in Public Places", in Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits (2009), pp. 8-15, Amherst College
  41. Powell, RJ, The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, vol. 25 (February, 2008), pp. 157-168
  42. Powell, RJ, "Barkley L. Hendricks, Anew", in Barkley L. Hendricks/Birth of the Cool, edited by Schoonmaker, T (2008), pp. 38-57, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
  43. Powell, RJ, PAINT IN THE NAME OF LOVE, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, vol. 22 no. 2 (2008), pp. 64-65, ISSN 1045-0920 [Gateway.cgi]
  44. Powell, RJ, "Paesaggio come evasion. Soggezione e affrancamento nelle immagini ottocentesche di afroamericani", in Pittura Americana del XIX secolo: Atti del convegno, edited by Goldin, M; Weinberg, HB (2008), pp. 116-136, Linea d’Ombra Libri, Treviso
  45. Powell, RJ, "Barkley L. Hendricks, Anew", in Barkley L. Hendricks/Birth of the Cool (2008), pp. 38-57, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
  46. Powell, RJ, "The Aaron Douglas Effect", in Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, edited by Earle, S (2007), pp. 53-73, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
  47. with Powell, RJ; Powell, RJ; Puryear, M, "A Conversation with Martin Puryear", in Martin Puryear, edited by Elderfield, J (2007), pp. 99-110, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  48. Powell, RJ, "The Aaron Douglas Effect", in Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist (2007), pp. 53-73, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
  49. Powell, RJ; Powell, RJ; Puryear, M, "A Conversation with Martin Puryear", in Martin Puryear (2007), pp. 99-110, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  50. Powell, RJ, "Changing, Conjuring Reality", in Conjuring Bearden (2006), pp. 19-31, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
  51. Powell, RJ, "On James A. Porter’s and (our) Modern Negro Art", in A Proud Continuum: Eight Decades of Art at Howard University (2005), pp. 25-28, Howard University Gallery of Art
  52. Powell, RJ, "Racial Imaginaries, from Charles White’s Preacher to Jean-Paul Goude and Grace Jones’ Nigger Arabesque", in Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary (2005), pp. 9-27, Whitechapel Art Gallery
  53. Powell, RJ, "On James A. Porter’s and (our) Modern Negro Art", in A Proud Continuum: Eight Decades of Art at Howard University (2005), pp. 25-28, Howard University Gallery of Art
  54. Powell, RJ, Linguists, Poets, and ‘Others’ on African American Art, American Art, vol. 17 (Spring, 2003), pp. 16-19
  55. Powell, RJ, Appreciation. Jacob Lawrence: Keep on Movin’, American Art, vol. 15 no. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 90-93, ISSN 1073-9300 [3109375], [doi]
  56. Powell, RJ, Sartor Africanus, in Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture, edited by Fillin-Yeh, S (2001), pp. 217-242, New York: New York University Press
  57. Powell, RJ, To Be Real, in The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience (2001), pp. 13-15, New London, Connecticut: Lyman Allyn
  58. Sartor Africanus, in Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture (2001), pp. 217-242, New York: New York University Press
  59. To Be Real, in The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience (2001), pp. 13-15, New London, Connecticut: Lyman Allyn
  60. Powell, RJ, Lamentations from the ‘Hood, in Kerry James Marshall/Mementos (2000), pp. 31-47, Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
  61. Powell, RJ, Conjuring Canes and Bible Quilts: Through the Prism of Nineteenth Century African American Spirituality, in African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures, edited by Wimbush, VL (2000), pp. 342-354, New York: Continuum
  62. Powell, RJ, Harmonizer of Chaos, in Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, edited by Nesbett, P; DuBois, M (2000), pp. 147-163, Seattle: University of Washington Press
  63. Harmonizer of Chaos, in Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (2000), pp. 147-163, Seattle: University of Washington Press
  64. Conjuring Canes and Bible Quilts: Through the Prism of Nineteenth Century African American Spirituality, in African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures (2000), pp. 342-354, New York: Continuum
  65. Powell, RJ, The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, in African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000, edited by Ervin, HA (1999), New York: Twayne Publishers, 289-302
  66. The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, in African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000 (1999), New York: Twayne Publishers, 289-302
  67. Powell, RJ, On Alain Locke and James Porter, Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence, vol. 11 (1998), pp. 1-8
  68. Powell, RJ, Cinqué: Antislavery Portraiture and Patronage in Jacksonian America, American Art, vol. 11 no. 3 (1997), pp. 49-73, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 1073-9300 [3109281], [doi]
  69. Powell, RJ, Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Art Bulletin, vol. 77 (September, 1995), pp. 132-137
  70. Powell, RJ, The Subject in/of Art History, The Art Bulletin, vol. 77 no. 3 (September, 1995), pp. 515 [doi]
  71. POWELL, RJ, ART, HISTORY, AND VISION, ART BULLETIN, vol. 77 no. 3 (1995), pp. 379-382, ISSN 0004-3079 [Gateway.cgi]
  72. POWELL, RJ, IMAGES AND IDENTITIES + EDITORIAL - A BRIEF, INTRODUCTORY NOTE, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, vol. 11 no. 3 (1994), pp. 6-6, ISSN 1045-0920 [Gateway.cgi]
  73. Powell, RJ, The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored, New Observations, vol. 97 (1993), pp. 10-15
  74. Powell, RJ, What Becomes a Legend Most? Reflections on Romare Bearden, Transition, vol. 55 (1992), pp. 62-72
  75. Powell, RJ, 'In My Family of Primitiveness and Tradition:' William H. Johnson's 'Jesus and the Three Marys', American Art, vol. 5 no. 4 (1991), pp. 21-33, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 1073-9300 [3109068], [doi]
  76. Powell, RJ, Margo Humphrey: Interview, Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence, vol. 5 (1987), pp. 56-65
  77. Powell, RJ, William H. Johnson's Minde Kerteminde, Black American Literature Forum, vol. 20 no. 4 (1986), pp. 393-403, JSTOR, ISSN 0148-6179 [2904438], [doi]
  78. Powell, RJ, On Exhibit: Black Artists of the Nineteenth Century, The Chicago Reader (August, 1985), pp. 10-11
  79. Powell, RJ, African Art at the Field Museum, African Arts, vol. 18 no. 2 (1985), pp. 24-101, JSTOR, ISSN 0001-9933 [3336186], [doi]
  80. Powell, RJ, Black Folk in America, 1930-1980, Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin (1984), pp. 11-18
  81. Powell, RJ, Current Expressions in Afro-American Printmaking, PrintNews, vol. 3 (April, 1981)
  82. Powell, RJ, The Afro-American Printmaking Tradition, PrintNews, vol. 3 (February, 1981), pp. 3-7
  83. Powell, RJ, 9/9, The New Art Examiner, vol. 7 (June, 1980), pp. 10-11
  84. Powell, RJ, Houston Conwill, Neworld (February, 1979)
  85. Powell, RJ, Talking to James Lesesne Wells, Print Review, vol. 9 (1979), pp. 65-75

Exhibition Catalogs

  1. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities: The Digital Exhibition (2000), Cambridge: MIT Press (Script and recorded narration of the virtual exhibition tour.) [com]
  2. Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance (2000) (Essay and consultant for a CD box set, Rhino Records R2 79874.)

Books in Progress

  1. Powell, RJ, African and Afro-American Art: Call and Response (1984), Field Museum
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