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Subject(s)

• Harlem Renaissance—Exhibitions [Browse]
• African American art—New York (State)—New York—20th century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Art, American—New York (State)—New York—20th century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Art, Modern—20th century—Exhibitions [Browse]

Editor

• Murrell, Denise [Browse]

Contributor

• Powell, Richard J., 1953- [Browse]
• Braun, Emily, 1957- [Browse]
• Boone, Emilie [Browse]
• Smalls, James, 1958- [Browse]
• Sowinski, Ego Ahaiwe [Browse]
• Archangel, Stephanie [Browse]
• Lozère, Christelle [Browse]
• Cooks, Bridget R., 1972- [Browse]
• Sims, Lowery Stokes [Browse]
• Tancons, Claire [Browse]

Host institution

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) [Browse]

Issuing body

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Summary note

"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." Yale University Press

Notes

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-317) and index

Time and place of event

Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 25, 2024-July 28, 2024--Colophon.

Contents

• Directors' foreword
• Contributors
• Lenders to the exhibition
• The new Negro artist and the modern Black subject / Denise Murrell
• The boys in the back room : gambling imagery during the Harlem Renaissance / Richard J. Powell
• A certain realism : the new in "the new negro" portraiture / Emily Braun
• James Van Der Zee and the global mobility of photographs / Emilie C. Boone
• Queer Harlem : gay sociability and transatlantic modernism / James Smalls
• Ronald Moody, international modernist / Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
• Harlem and the Dutch Caribbean / Stephanie Archangel
• Artists from the Antilles in interwar Paris / Christelle Lozère
• Artists for victory and the WPA at The Met : catalytic acquisitions of work by African American artists in the early 1940s / Lowery Stokes Sims
• The Harlem Renaissance in exhibition / Bridget R. Cooks
• A political pageant : the Harlem Renaissance on parade / Claire Tancons
• Plates
• List of illustrations
• Notes to the essays
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• Photograph credits

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ISBN

• 9781588397737
• 1588397734

OCLC

1413265469

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