The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Author: Denise Murrell
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2024-02-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588397734

Beginning in the 1920s, 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 reexamines 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, as well as the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Charles Henry Alston, Augusta Savage, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art to render all aspects of African American city life, this publication also includes works by lesser known contributors, including Laura Wheeler Waring and Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., who took a more classical approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. The works of New Negro artists active abroad are also examined in juxtaposition with those of their European and international African diasporan peers, from Germaine Casse and Ronald Moody to Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. 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.

Rhapsodies in Black

Rhapsodies in Black
Author: Richard J. Powell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520212633

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.

Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas
Author: Aaron Douglas
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300135923

The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance
Author: Meghan Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: African American arts
ISBN: 9781502657688

The intellectual and cultural expansion of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance deeply enriched American society. Recently freed from slavery, black Americans finally had an opportunity to freely express themselves even though they continued to face many hardships, including segregation and poverty. Through main text that features annotated quotes from primary sources and historical photographs, readers learn about the contributions people of color made to art, literature, and music in the 1920s. In-depth sidebars connect these past achievements with those of the present. Discussion questions ask readers to think critically about the impact of the Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance
Author: David C. Driskell
Publisher: Abradale Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1994-02
Genre: Art
ISBN:

One hundred fifty works by Black artists in Harlem during the 1920s from the exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

The African American Roots of Modernism

The African American Roots of Modernism
Author: James Edward Smethurst
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807834637

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response fr

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
Author: A.B. Christa Schwarz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780253216076

"Heretofore scholars have not been willing—perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal—to identify much of the Harlem Renaissance work as same-sex oriented. . . . An important book." —Jim Elledge This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Countée Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. The portrayals of men-loving men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment of contemporary gay code words, deriving from the Greek discourse of homosexuality and from Walt Whitman. By contrast, Nugent—the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist—portrayed men-loving men without reference to racial concepts or Whitmanesque codes. Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing.

Voices from the Harlem Renaissance

Voices from the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195093605

Nathan Irvin Huggins showcases more than 120 selections from the political writings and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring works by such greats as Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, and Gwendolyn Bennett, here is an extraordinary look at the remarkable outpouring of African-American literature and art during the 1920s.

The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance
Author: Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199335559

This Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike.

Painting Harlem Modern

Painting Harlem Modern
Author: Patricia Hills
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-02-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520305507

Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision.