Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity / Caroline Goeser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goeser, Caroline.

Series:

Culture America

CultureAmerica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in art.

Illustration of books--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Illustration of books.

Magazine illustration--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Magazine illustration.

African American illustrators--New York (State)--New York.

African American illustrators.

Harlem Renaissance.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction : making black modern in the medium of illustration

An overview of Harlem Renaissance illustrations and their reception. Strategizing from spaces between : Aaron Douglas and the art of illustrating ; From racial uplift to vernacular expression : commercial and little magazine illustrations ; "Worth the price of the book" : dust jacket and book illustrations ; Critical ambivalence : illustration's reception in print

Critical themes in Harlem Renaissance illustration. Remaking the past, making the modern : race, gender, and the modern economy ; Religion as "power site of cultural resistance" ; Black and tan : racial and sexual crossings in Ebony and topaz ; "To smile satirically" : on wearing the minstrel mask

A brief conclusion : on making black modern during the Renaissance and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-350) and index.

ISBN:

0700614664

OCLC:

70883198

Publisher Number:

9780700614660