An artist beyond category.(The Whitney Museum showcases the work of Romare Bearden)

From: The Nation | Date: December 6, 2004| Author: Bearden, Romare; Danto, Arthur Coleman | Copyright information

Crossing from the first to the second room of the generous retrospective of Romare Bearden's art, on view through January 9, 2005, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is not simply to move from one phase to another in Bearden's development; it is to leave one art historical period for another.

Bearden was successful in both periods--in the 1940s of the first room, he showed with Samuel Kootz, whose gallery was dedicated to advanced art of the time; and in the 1960s of...

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