Description: The Black Aesthetic Author: Addison Gayle, Jr. (ed.) Title: The Black Aesthetic Publication: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1972 Edition: First paperback edition Description: Softcover. Octavo. xxiv, 409 (2)pp. Original black stiff wraps with white, yellow,red and green lettering on cover and spine. Collection of essays on black aesthetics including contributions of thirty-three writers, including Langston Hughes "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," on theory, music, poetry, drama and fiction, edited by literary critic Addison Gayle, Jr. The book "... is up to its eyelids in some of the best writing there is on some of the most explosive ideas black people have had since water." (Toni Morrison). And "A volume of strident advocacy, it is also mocking, provoking and accusing, and light years away from the plane of conventional literary discourse. But what is at stake is not a fine point or structure but a matter of artistic survival... The sense of engagement, of passionate caring runs like fire through the book..." (Thomas Lask, New York Times). W.E.B. DuBois' "Of The Sorrow Songs" includes lyrics and scores of "Negro Songs." Biographies and index at rear. Half-title with full page sensible inscription on black manhood to unnamed recipient, signed by Cliff. Wraps with light wear along edges. Very good condition. Seller ID: 47953 Subject: Literature We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. Terms All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Priority Mail. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Addison Gayle, Jr. (ed
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc
Year Printed: 1972
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
