Table of contents for The Art of History: African-American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins

ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 A VISUAL PARADOX: Art and Aesthetics in African American Thought
2 HISTORIC RETRIEVALS: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of Truth
3 ECONOMIES OF THE FLESH: Representing the Black Female Body in Art
4 VISIBLE ROOTS AND VISUAL ROUTES: Art, Africanisms, and the Sea Islands
5 BROWN CRAYONS AND BLACK DOLLS: The Art of Coming of Age
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX