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Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention - The Old Negro in New Negro Art (Hardcover)
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Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention - The Old Negro in New Negro Art (Hardcover)
Series: New Black Studies Series
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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.
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