John Thomas Biggers (1924-2001) was a major African American artist
who inspired countless others through his teaching, murals,
paintings, and drawings. After receiving conventional art training at
Hampton Institute and Pennsylvania State, he had his personal and
artistic breakthrough in 1957 when he spent six months in the newly
independent country of Ghana. From this time forward, he integrated
African abstract elements with his rural Southern images to create a
personal iconography. His new approach made him famous, as his
personal discovery of African heritage fit in well with the growing
U.S. civil rights movement. He is best known for his murals at
Hampton University, Winston-Salem University, and Texas Southern, but
the drawings and lithographs that lie behind the murals have received
scant attention—until now. Theisen interviewed Dr. Biggers during the
last thirteen years of his life, and was welcomed into his studio
innumerable times. Together, they selected representative works for
this volume, some of which have not been previously published for a
general audience. After his death in 2001, his widow continued to
work closely with Theisen, resulting in a book that is intimate and
informative for both the scholar and the student.
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