Archibald Motley Jr And Racial Reinvention

Author : Phoebe Wolfskill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099700

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Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention by Phoebe Wolfskill Pdf

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
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439674369

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Jazz Age Chicago by Joseph Gustaitis Pdf

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 A. Courage,Christopher Robert Reed
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252051913

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Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance by Richard A. Courage,Christopher Robert Reed Pdf

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
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397737

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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism by Denise Murrell Pdf

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
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351045179

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The Routledge Companion to African American Art History by Eddie Chambers Pdf

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 : Amy M. Mooney
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059308000

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Archibald J. Motley Jr by Amy M. Mooney Pdf

Extraordinary artist whose social consciousness extended beyond his paintings. Book jacket.

Author : Richard J. Powell,Amon Carter Museum of American Art,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African American painting
ISBN : 0938989375

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Archibald Motley by Richard J. Powell,Amon Carter Museum of American Art,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Whitney Museum of American Art Pdf

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 : John R. Vile
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527572188

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The Christian Cross in American Public Life by John R. Vile Pdf

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,Paula Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000588514

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Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States by Cynthia Fowler,Paula Murphy Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Illinois
ISBN : UIUC:30112126070686

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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Romaine,Phoebe Wolfskill
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American art
ISBN : 0271077743

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Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art by James Romaine,Phoebe Wolfskill Pdf

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 : Rebecca VanDiver
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : African diaspora in art
ISBN : 0271086041

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Designing a New Tradition by Rebecca VanDiver Pdf

A critical analysis of the art and career of African American painter Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998). Examines Jones's engagement with African and Afrodiasporic themes as well as the challenges she faced as a black woman artist.

Author : Darlene Clark Hine,John McCluskey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252094392

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The Black Chicago Renaissance by Darlene Clark Hine,John McCluskey Pdf

Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. This collection's various essays discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the Harlem Renaissance and placed the development of black culture in a national and international context. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, and the American Negro Exposition of 1940. Contributors are Hilary Mac Austin, David T. Bailey, Murry N. DePillars, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Erik S. Gellman, Jeffrey Helgeson, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Christopher Robert Reed, Elizabeth Schlabach, and Clovis E. Semmes.

Author : Koritha Mitchell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052200

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From Slave Cabins to the White House by Koritha Mitchell Pdf

Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place." Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards. Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

Author : Jonathan Fenderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252051272

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Building the Black Arts Movement by Jonathan Fenderson Pdf

As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of Fuller's life and achievements to rethink the period and establish Fuller's important role in laying the foundation for the movement. In telling Fuller's story, Fenderson provides provocative new insights into the movement's international dimensions, the ways the movement took shape at the local level, the impact of race and other factors, and the challenges--corporate, political, and personal--that Fuller and others faced in trying to build black institutions. An innovative study that approaches the movement from a historical perspective, Building the Black Arts Movement is a much-needed reassessment of the trajectory of African American culture over two explosive decades.