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Gr 5-8 Greenberg's exploration of Bearden's art is filled with large, full-color reproductions, primarily of his mature works. The illustrations occasionally fill an entire page, and give readers an excellent overview of Bearden's style and subject matter. Some photographs of the artist are included as well. Using the collages and lithographs to reveal biographical snippets and memories results in disjointed and choppy text, both in sentence structure and in subject matter. The author hops around from...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Almost any assemblage of Romare Bearden pictures has a potential attraction for young people: the work is vibrant, cinematic, realistic, anecdotal. And this presentation of his life as reflected in his later, post-civil rights work does, sometimes, strike a chord. There is the burial of a star-crossed young friend in Farewell Eugene; there are the bleak interiors of a 1920s Pittsburgh boarding house, the mill workers bone-weary, the sky outside afire. There are, as well, the familiar photomontages of head-on Harlem faces that still have the power to move. But the book is grossly overdesigned, with the pictures framed in a Mondr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More