Main entry:

Douglas, Aaron, artist.

Title & Author:

Aaron Douglas : African American modernist / edited by Susan Earle ; with essays and contributions by Renée Ater, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, David C. Driskell, Susan Earle, Robert E. Hemenway, Amy Helene Kirschke, Stephanie Fox Knappe, Richard J. Powell, Cheryl R. Ragar.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press ; Lawrence : in association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2007.
©2007

Description:

xvii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plan, portraits (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 8-December 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.
(from 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.
Texts also by: Kinshasha Holman Conwill, David C. Driskell, Susan Earle, Robert E. Hemenway, Amy Helene Kirschke, Stephanie Fox Knappe, Richard J. Powell, Cheryl R. Rager.

Summary:

"In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, prompting the philosopher and writer Alain Locke to dub him the "father of Black American art." Douglas's role, as well as that of the Harlem Renaissance in general, in the evolution of American modernism deserves close scholarly attention - attention it finally receives in this illustrated book on his life and work. Its authors argue that Douglas's work opened doors for African American artists in Harlem and beyond, and that it invited a dialogue with modernism that put African American life, labor, and freedom, along with African traditions and motifs, at its center. New information emerges from these pages, reflecting the rich interchange between the visual arts, music, dance, literature, and politics that shaped Douglas's work and also defined the Harlem Renaissance."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780300121803 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0300121806 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780300135923 paperback ; alkaline paper
0300135920 paperback ; alkaline paper

Subject:

Douglas, Aaron Exhibitions.
Douglas, Aaron
African American artists Exhibitions.
Harlem Renaissance Pictorial works.
African American arts Pictorial works.
Artistes noirs américains Expositions.
Harlem Renaissance Ouvrages illustrés.
Arts noirs américains Ouvrages illustrés.
Harlem Renaissance
African American arts
African American artists
Afro-amerikanska konstnärer utställningar.

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
exhibition catalogs.
Pictorial works
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Earle, Susan Elizabeth, editor, contributor.
Ater, Renée, contributor.
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, host institution.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.), host institution.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, host institution.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254956
Call No.: BIB 185032
Status: Available