Artist and Influence - Volume XXVIII (2009)

James V. Hatch / India Amos / Judy Blum (Editors). 
Artist and Influence: Volume XXVIII.

New York:  Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc, 2009.
Softcover. 
254 pages. 

Near fine.  

Interviews with Bill Carr, Michael Harrell, Thomas Allen Harris, Paul Carter Harrison, Robin Holder, Franck Laraque, Whitney LeBlanc, Charles Martin, Reginald McGhee, Dianne McIntyre, Barbara & Carlton Molette, Robert O'Meally, Hayward Oubre, Juanita Oubre, Norman Parish, and Charles White. 

Lecture at Columbia University by Charles White. 
Western Influences on Aboriginal Art by Nicole Neville Suarez. 

Poetry by Camille Billops, Boadiba, Anneke Buys, Winifred Eileen Derryck, Danielle Legros Georges, Gail Goldsmith, James V. Hatch,  Gerald Juzdan, glenngo allen king, Pamela L. La Bonne, Erik La Prade, Karen Lawton, Randall Merrifield, Victoria Sullivan and Marlene Tartaglione. 

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.