DOC The Piano Guys Songbook: Solo Piano with Optional Cello by The Piano Guys in Arts-Photography

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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.