Archibald Motley Jr And Racial Reinvention

Author : Phoebe Wolfskill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099702
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention written by Phoebe Wolfskill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift. Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley's art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley's oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist's complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley's paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley's oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation.

Author : Joseph Gustaitis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439674361
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Age Chicago written by Joseph Gustaitis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlooks the crucial role the Windy City played in the modernization of America. The city's incredible ethnic variety and massive building boom gave it unparalleled creative space, as design trends from Art Deco skyscrapers to streamlined household appliances reflected Chicago's unmistakable style. The emergence of mass media in the 1920s helped make professional sports a national obsession, even as Chicago radio stations were inventing the sitcom and the soap opera. Join Joseph Gustaitis as he chases the beat of America's Jazz Age back to its jazz capital.

Author : Richard J. Powell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938989370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archibald Motley written by Richard J. Powell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 140 color illustrations, the catalogue Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist accompanies the first full-scale survey of the work of the American painter and master colorist Archibald Motley (1891-1981).

Author : Amy M. Mooney
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archibald J. Motley Jr written by Amy M. Mooney and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary artist whose social consciousness extended beyond his paintings. Book jacket.

Author : Richard A. Courage
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051912
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance written by Richard A. Courage and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life. Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance. Contributors: Richard A. Courage, Mary Jo Deegan, Brenda Ellis Fredericks, James C. Hall, Bonnie Claudia Harrison, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Amy M. Mooney, Christopher Robert Reed, Clovis E. Semmes, Margaret Rose Vendryes, and Richard Yarborough

Author : Denise Murrell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397734
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism written by Denise Murrell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eddie Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351045172
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to African American Art History written by Eddie Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how African American art is and has been taught and researched in academia. The third part focuses on how African American art has been reflected in art galleries and museums. The final section opens up understandings of what we mean when we speak of African American art. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and professors and may be used in American art, African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.

Author : James Romaine
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271077741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art written by James Romaine and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring prominent African American artists' engagement with Christian themes. Essays examine the ways in which an artist's engagement with religious symbols can be an expression of concerns related to racial, political, and socio-economic identity.

Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527572188
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Cross in American Public Life written by John R. Vile and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross is one of Christianity’s most distinctive symbols, increasingly cutting across Catholic/Protestant and other denominational divides. Although the US acknowledges no official religion, a variety of both Christian and non-Christian denominations have flourished. Crosses dot the landscape, sometimes towering over it and at other times simply marking a grave or the site of a traffic accident, or providing a place for contemplation. Courts continue to decide whether it is better to remove long-standing crosses on public property to protect the separation of church and state, or whether removing such symbols might be misinterpreted as expressing hostility towards religion. Whether marking identity, triumph, love, grief, or sacrifice, the cross remains important in American life and continues to be the subject of works of art, music, literature, and political, religious, and social rhetoric, all of which this volume addresses in an accessible A-to-Z format.

Author : Cynthia Fowler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000588505
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States written by Cynthia Fowler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States. Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, photography and exhibitions from the nineteenth century to the present, the depth of the relationship between the two countries, as well as its complexity, is revealed. The book is intended for all who are interested in Irish/American interconnectedness and will be of particular interest to scholars and students of art history, visual culture, history, Irish studies and American studies.