Proceedings of a symposium organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art which was held Oct. 24-25, 2003 in Washington
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: "You can't always do things the same way" / Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis -- Ralph Ellison's Romare Bearden / Darby English -- Heroic moments of modernity: Romare Bearden, Carlos Enriquez, and the Poetic Lament / Rocio Aranda-Alvarado -- Cold War diplomacy and the Civil Rights activism at the First World Festival of Negro Arts / Jody Blake -- "We used to say stashed": Romare Bearden paints the blues / Robert G. O'Meally -- Bearden, theater, film, dance / Richard A. Long -- Bearden in The Crisis: illustrating identity and political action / Amy Helene Kirschke -- Bearden's hands / Jacqueline Francis -- Deep waters: rebirth, transcendence, and abstraction in Romare Bearden's Passion of Christ / Kymberly N. Pinder -- Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. Driskell -- Nurtured and necessary: mothers of invention / Ruth Fine -- The woodshed / Richard J. Powell -- Romare Bearden: on view / Bridget R. Cooks -- Cultural legacies and the transformation of the Cubist Collage Aesthetic by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and other African-American artists / Patricia Hills -- The Negro artist's dilemma: Bearden, Picasso, and pop art / Pepe Karmel
