African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs : Opportunity, Access, and Community / Mary Ann Calo and Jacqueline Francis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calo, Mary Ann, 1949- author.

Francis, Jacqueline, author.

Contributor:

funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art--20th century.

African American art.

African American artists--History--20th century.

African American artists.

Art and race.

Federal aid to the arts--United States--History--20th century.

Federal aid to the arts.

New Deal art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Calo Mary Ann : Mary Ann Calo is Batza Professor of Art and Art History Emerita at Colgate University. She is the author of three books, including Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40.Mary Ann Calo is Batza Professor of Art and Art History Emerita at Colgate University. She is the author of three books, including Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40.

Summary:

This book examines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience rather than individual artists' works, Mary Ann Calo makes the case that the revolutionary vision of these federal art projects is best understood in the context of access to opportunity, mediated by the reality of racial segregation.Focusing primarily on the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Calo documents African American artists' participation in community art centers in Harlem, in St. Louis, and throughout the South. She examines the internal workings of the Harlem Artists' Guild, the Guild's activities during the 1930s, and its alliances with other groups, such as the Artists' Union and the National Negro Congress. Calo also explores African American artists' representation in the exhibitions sponsored by WPA administrators and the critical reception of their work. In doing so, she elucidates the evolving meanings of the terms race, culture, and community in the interwar era. The book concludes with an essay by Jacqueline Francis on Black artists in the early 1940s, after the end of the FAP program.Presenting essential new archival information and important insights into the experiences of Black New Deal artists, this study expands the factual record and positions the cumulative evidence within the landscape of critical race studies. It will be welcomed by art historians and American studies scholars specializing in early twentieth-century race relations.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Historiography

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Participation

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Advocacy

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Visibility

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Aftermath

Notes to Chapter 5

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Calo, Mary Ann African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs

ISBN:

0-271-09574-1

OCLC:

1395907170