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The Art of Winold Reiss brings to light the creative and
forward-thinking work of this German-born artist. Winold Reiss
(1886-1953) arrived in New York in 1913, the year of the
ground-breaking Armory Show. The exhibition shook the American art
scene to its core and ushered in a radically new artistic
sensibility, whilst Reiss's exuberant, dynamic designs anticipated
the American passion for the new European avant-garde art. Steeped
in a German aesthetic, Reiss brought his unique brand of modernism
to the United States, and established a reputation and material
presence in New York's cultural and commercial landscape. This
vibrantly illustrated volume showcases over 140 examples of Reiss's
work, ranging from his early graphic creations for advertisements,
menus, packaging, calendars, and books, to his architectural and
interior designs. Reiss's portraits of African Americans include
leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance as well as members of the
professional and working classes. Essays by leading specialists
provide an overview of Reiss's life and artistic achievements,
examining his interior designs of iconic New York restaurants and
bars, his portraits and his decorative arts, including his work in
new 20th-century materials.
Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-American history? Fear not, because 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History is history at your fingertips-in a concise, accessible, easily-read format.
Jeffrey C. Stewart, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, takes the reader on an all-encompassing journey through the entirety of African-American history that is pithy, provocative, and encyclopedic in scope. Here are all the people, terms, ideas, events, and social processes that make African-American history such a fascinating and inspiring subject.
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History covers all the significant information in six broad sections: Great Migrations; Civil Rights and Politics; Science, Inventions and Medicine; Sports; Military; Culture and Religion. It will entertain as well as instruct, and it can be read from beginning to end as well as opened at random and read at any length without confusion.
A necessary addition to every family's library, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History presents African American history in a fun, engaging and intelligent way.
This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first major
museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis (1909-1979). Lewis
was the sole African American artist of his generation who became
committed to issues of abstraction at the start of his career and
continued to explore them over its entire trajectory. His art
derived inspiration from music (jazz and classical) and nature
(seasonal change, plant forms, the sea). Also central to his work
were the dramatic confrontations of the civil rights movement, in
which he was an active participant among the New York art scene.
Bridging the Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, and
beyond, Lewis is a crucial figure in American abstraction whose
reinsertion into the discourse further opens the field for
recognition of the contributions of artists of color. Bringing
much-needed attention to Lewis's output and significance in the
history of American art, Procession is a milestone in Lewis
scholarship and a vital resource for future study of the artist and
abstraction in his period. Published in association with
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Exhibition
dates: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia:
November 13, 2015-April 3, 2016 Amon Carter Museum of American Art,
Fort Worth: June 4-August 21, 2016 Chicago Cultural Center:
September 17, 2016-January 8, 2017
A collection of illustrated essays highlights the works of
influential Black artists from Washington, DC, from the 1920s to
the present In a twentieth century during which modern art largely
abandoned beauty as its imperative, a group of Black artists from
Washington, DC, made beauty the center of their art making. This
book highlights these influential artists, including David C.
Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Lois Mailou Jones, and Alma Thomas, in the
context of what Jeffrey C. Stewart describes as the Washington
Black Renaissance. Vibrant histories of key District institutions
and the city’s communities of educators, critics, and collectors
animate a nuanced consideration of the evolution of an aesthetic
dialectic from the 1920s up to the present day. The 15 essays in
the volume are grounded by voices from a live artist panel at the
National Gallery of Art in 2017, which included Lilian Thomas
Burwell, Floyd Coleman, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Keith
Morrison, Martin Puryear, Sylvia Snowden, and Lou Stovall.
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia
around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young
artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob
Lawrence and call them the New Negro — the creative African
Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire
Black people to greatness. In the prize-winning The New Negro: The
Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive
biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the
extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who
knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including
his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning
a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a
professor at Howard University. Locke also received a cosmopolitan,
aesthetic education through his travels in continental Europe,
where he came to appreciate the beauty of art and experienced a
freedom unknown to him in the United States. And yet he became most
closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age
America and his promotion of the literary and artistic work of
African Americans as the quintessential creations of American
modernism. In the process he looked to Africa to find the proud and
beautiful roots of the race. Shifting the discussion of race from
politics and economics to the arts, he helped establish the idea
that Black urban communities could be crucibles of creativity.
Stewart explores both Locke's professional and private life,
including his relationships with his mother, his friends, and his
white patrons, as well as his lifelong search for love as a gay
man. Stewart's thought-provoking biography recreates the worlds of
this illustrious, enigmatic man who, in promoting the cultural
heritage of Black people, became—in the process—a New Negro
himself.
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