The visual blues /

The visual blues explores the enormous impact that blues and jazz music emanating from the Deep South and moving north had on artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance. The Visual Blues shows how the artists and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance blurred artistic boundaries, drawing inspiratio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mault, Natalie A. (Author, Editor), Lawson, R. A., 1974- (Author), Lowe, John, 1945- (Author), Vendryes, Margaret Rose, 1955- (Author), Barnett, Lauren (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : LSU Museum of Art, [2014]
Subjects:	Harlem Renaissance > Exhibitions. African American art > 20th century > Exhibitions. Music > African American influences > Exhibitions. Blues (Music) in art > Exhibitions. Exhibition catalogs. 1900 - 1999 African American art. Blues (Music) in art. Harlem Renaissance. Music > African American influences.

Table of Contents:

Shake that thang : dancing figures and figures that dance in African American art / Margaret Rose Vendryes
Blues, jazz, and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance / John Lowe
Hearing the blues in the art of the Harlem Renaissance / R.A. Lawson
"Money, you've got lots of friends" : patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Natalie A. Mault.