Artist and Influence - Volume XVI (1997)

James V. Hatch / Leo Hamalian / Judy Blum (Editors). 
Artist and Influence: Volume XVI.

New York:  Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc, 1997.
Softcover. 
180 pages. 

Very good. 
Minor edge wear. 

Interviews with Luis R. Cancel, David Driskell, Elton Clay Fax, Dion Thomas Hatch, Katerina Jarboro, Salem Mekuria, Roy Meriwether, Lewis Michaux, Thomas D. Pawley III, Jack White, and Jack Whitten. 

Poetry by James V. Hatch, Krysia Jopek, Glenngo Allen King, Barbara Lekatsas, Stuart Miller, Suzanne Noguere, Thomas D. Pawley III, Vera Turner, Victoria Sullivan, and Afaa M. Weaver. 

Artist and Influence is an annual journal published by the Hatch-Billops Collection in New York. Among other materials, Hatch-Billops houses an archival collection of oral histories of African American and some Asian and Hispanic artists from all fields of the performing, graphic, and spatial arts.

Interviews with Black and Asian filmmakers, actors, musicians, sculptors, photographers, animators, choreographers, singers, and painters, provide new information about the role of minority groups in the development of the American arts. Many of the figures whose words are transcribed were elderly when they were interviewed. Their perceptions shed new light on movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the role of Black musicians during the Depression, or the resistance of Hollywood filmmakers during the 1930s and 40s to using Black actors and actresses.