Summary Of Stella Paul's Modern Storyteller

Published as a part of The Met Heilbrunn Timeline, Stella Paul writes Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold (2004) to highlight three African-American artists who conveyed important expressive messages through their works with narrative and social commentary. She elaborates on how the artist's similar heritage and upbringing forged similar identities, yet distinct chosen subject and non-traditional media, allowed for them to become modern storytellers for their community and Harlem. In telling of the artists, in brief, her purpose is to show the way in which an artist still has the penitential to be able to portray a narrative and reinvent the way in which they choose to encapsulate messages of history, politics,