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The Harlem Renaissance and transatlantic modernism /

"In the 1920s and '30s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City....

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Other Authors: Archangel, Stephanie (Contributor), Boone, Emilie (Contributor), Braun, Emily, 1957- (Contributor), Cooks, Bridget R., 1972- (Contributor), Lozère, Christelle (Contributor), Murrell, Denise (Editor), Powell, Richard J., 1953- (Contributor), Sims, Lowery Stokes (Contributor), Smalls, James, 1958- (Contributor), Sowinski, Ego Ahaiwe (Contributor), Tancons, Claire (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2024]
Subjects:
20th century
African American art > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art, American > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Harlem Renaissance > Exhibitions.
African American art.
Art, American.
Art, Modern.
Harlem Renaissance.
New York (State) > New York.
Exhibition catalogs.
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Summary:"In the 1920s and '30s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume examines for the first time the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity, with roots in the New Negro theories and aesthetics of Alain Locke, its founding philosopher. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Archibald Motley, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art, this publication also includes works by lesser-known contributors who took a radically new approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism."
Item Description:Featured artists include: Charles Henry Alston ; William Artis ; Richmond Barthé ; Romare Bearden ; Teodoro Ramos Blanco ; Yves Brayer ; Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. ; Germaine Casse ; Elizabeth Catlett ; Miguel Covarrubias ; Ernest Crichlow ; Allan Rohan Crite ; Roy DeCarava ; Beauford Delaney ; Kees van Dongen ; Jan Adriaan Donker Duyvis ; Aaron Douglas ; Jacob Epstein ; Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ; Margaret Taylor Goss-Burroughs ; Edwin Harleston ; Nola Hatterman ; Palmer Hayden ; Bert Hurley ; Malvin Gray Johnson ; Sargent Claude Johnson ; William H. Johnson ; Jacob Lawrence ; Henri Matisse ; Adolf de Meyer ; Lisette Model ; Roland Moody ; Archibald J. Motley, Jr. ; Edvard Munch ; Richard Bruce Nugent ; Suzanna Ogunjami ; Roland Penrose ; Pablo Picasso ; Horace Pippin ; Man Ray ; Winold Reiss ; John N. Robinson ; Augusta Savage ; Chaim Soutine ; James Van Der Zee ; Carl Van Vechten ; Laura Wheeler Waring ; Hale Woodruff.
Physical Description:331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-317) and index
ISBN:1588397734
9781588397737