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Posing Modernity - The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today (Hardcover)
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Posing Modernity - The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today (Hardcover)
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An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female
figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to
contemporary art This revelatory study investigates how changing
modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to
the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy
of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical
painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist
portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday
life rather than as an exotic "other." Denise Murrell explores the
little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of
nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free
black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet's reconsideration
of the black model into the twentieth century and across the
Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later
produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of
modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in
dialogue with the urbane "New Negro" portraiture style with which
Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura
Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a
look at how Manet's and Matisse's depictions influenced Romare
Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global
contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aime Mpane, Maud Sulter,
and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its
multiple voices. Featuring over 175 illustrations and profiles of
several models, Posing Modernity illuminates long-obscured figures
and proposes that a history of modernism cannot be complete until
it examines the vital role of the black female muse within it.
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