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Aaron Douglas : African American modernist
Title:
Aaron Douglas : African American modernist
Author:
Douglas, Aaron.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press ; Lawrence : In association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, [2007]

©2007
Physical Description:
xvii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Sept. 8-Dec. 2, 2007; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, January 18-April 13, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., May 9-August 3, 2008; Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, August 30-November 30, 2008.
Language:
English
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.
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ISBN:
9780300121803
Format :
Book