Images of Black Modernism Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance / Miriam Thaggert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thaggert, Miriam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

Harlem Renaissance.

African American art--20th century.

African American art.

Art in literature.

Visual perception in literature.

African Americans in art.

African Americans in literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 248 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes.

Contents:

Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature

Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect

Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing

Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler's Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum"

Collectin' Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten

A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind

Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem" exhibition.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-050-7

OCLC:

794700492