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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
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A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism
Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume reexamines the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity, with roots in the New Negro theories and aesthetics of Alain Locke, its founding philosopher, as well as the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Charles Henry Alston, Augusta Savage, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art to render all aspects of African American city life, this publication also includes works by lesser-known contributors, including Laura Wheeler Waring and Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., who took a more classical approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. The works of New Negro artists active abroad are also examined in juxtaposition with those of their European and international African diasporan peers, from Germaine Casse and Ronald Moody to Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(February 25–July 28, 2024)
Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume reexamines the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity, with roots in the New Negro theories and aesthetics of Alain Locke, its founding philosopher, as well as the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Charles Henry Alston, Augusta Savage, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art to render all aspects of African American city life, this publication also includes works by lesser-known contributors, including Laura Wheeler Waring and Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., who took a more classical approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. The works of New Negro artists active abroad are also examined in juxtaposition with those of their European and international African diasporan peers, from Germaine Casse and Ronald Moody to Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(February 25–July 28, 2024)
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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
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Angela Wheeler –
Incredible history of art and inspiration for the cultural future !
G. Dave –
Anyone interested not just in the Harlem Renaissance, but in the entire 20th century history of American and Western Art will be deeply affected by this outstanding volume. From Alain Locke to James Weldon Johnson, to McKay, Hughes, Hurston, Cullen, to the many great visual artists, like the magnificent Norman Lewis, to the multitude of musical geniuses, you will come away with a newfound astonishment at the sheer brilliance of such a treasure trove of artistry. You will come to understand the two-way mutual influence from Harlem to Europe and back. The universality of artistic genius is a beautiful and urgent lesson for us all.
The photographs and color plates are stunning. This great volume is not to be missed!
Excellent produit, facile à installer. Livraison rapide. –
Superbe album d’une grande exposition
Frequent book purchaser –
The colors in this book’s images are dull, washed out–nothing at all like the vibrant, lively colors of the paintings (I just got back from the exhibition!). Skip this book and take a look at “I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100” by Haygood. There you will find true colors!