Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Rebecca VanDiver
Penn State University Press
A fresh perspective on the art and career of Lois Mailou Jones. Tracing Jones' aesthetic transformations along a biographical arc, VanDiver offers a new framework for thinking about the connection between America and Africa and the role of the African diaspora in the creation of African American artistic identity.