Aaron Douglas : art, race, and the Harlem Renaissance / Amy Helene Kirschke.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kirschke, Amy Helene.

Contributor:

• Douglas, Aaron.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Douglas, Aaron.
• African American artists--Biography.
• Douglas, Aaron--Criticism and interpretation.
• Harlem Renaissance.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 166 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1995]

Summary:

Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) is the leading visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African-American to explore modernism and to reflect African art in his paintings, murals, and illustrations. His work is a vivid record both of his achievement and of the distinctive imprint of the Harlem Renaissance upon American culture. This exploration of Douglas's life and career is filled with reproductions of his art. From previously unavailable source materials, including letters to his wife, Amy Kirschke traces the struggle of this fascinating artist to advance the Harlem Renaissance and to establish its particular imprint.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-158) and index.

ISBN:

• 0878057757
• 0878058001

OCLC:

31606894