Henry Ossawa Tanner : modern spirit / edited by Anna O. Marley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937.

Contributor:

Marley, Anna O.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Cincinnati Art Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937--Exhibitions.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937.

African American artists--Biography.

African American artists.

Criticism and interpretation.

Exhibitions.

Genre:

Biographies.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Penn.] : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ; Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, [2012]

Contents:

Henry Ossawa Tanner: modern spirit / Anna O. Marley

Henry Ossawa Tanner in the context of Black artists. Before Tanner / Olivier Meslay ; Tanner and transcendence / Richard J. Powell

Henry Ossawa Tanner and the expatriate experience. The Resurrection of Lazarus : from the Quartier Latin to the Musée du Luxembourg / Marc Simpson ; Pioneer and sage : Henry Ossawa Tanner and the interwar African American community in Paris / Tyler Stovall ; Tanner, the pillar of Trépied / Jean-Claude Lesage ; Tanner and "Oriental" Africa / Adrienne L. Childs

Henry Ossawa Tanner and religious painting. A New Testament : Henry Ossawa Tanner, religious discourse, and the "lessons" of art / Marcus Bruce ; "I invited the Christ spirit to manifest in me" : Tanner and symbolism / Robert Cozzolino ; "The dynamo and the virgin" : Henry Ossawa Tanner's religious nocturnes / Hélène Valance ; Christian cosmopolitanism : Henry Ossawa Tanner and the beginning of the end of race / Alan C. Braddock

Henry Ossawa Tanner's style and techniques. Reproduction troubles : Tanner's "Mothers of the Bible" for the Ladies' Home Journal / Michael Leja ; Pursuit of the ideal effect : the materials and techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner / Brian Baade, Amber Kerr-Allison, and Jennifer Giacci

Plates

Chronology.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 28-Apr. 15, 2012, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26-Sept. 9, 2012, and at Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex., Oct. 14, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-297) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

0520270754

9780520270749

9780520270756

0520270746

OCLC:

756167012

Publisher Number:

99954052839