Aaron Douglas African American modernist /
| Main Author: | Douglas, Aaron. |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | Earle, Susan Elizabeth., Ater, Renée., Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art., Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.), Smithsonian American Art Museum., Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven : Lawrence : In association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
Yale University Press ;
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Robert E. Hemenway
- Directors' Foreword / Saralyn Reece Hardy and Victor D. Simmons
- Introduction / Kinshasha Holman Conwill
- Harlem, modernism, and beyond: Aaron Douglas and his role in art/history / Susan Earle
- The Aaron Douglas effect / Richard J. Powell
- Aaron Douglas: influences and impacts of the early years / Cheryl R. Ragar
- Some observations on Aaron Douglas as tastemaker in the renaissance movement / David C. Driskell
- Creating a "usable past" and a "future perfect society": Aaron Douglas's murals for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition / Renée Ater
- The fisk murals revealed: memories of Africa, hope for the future / Amy Helene Kirschke
- Plates
- Chronology / Stephanie Fox Knappe.