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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goeser, Caroline, author.

Series:

Culture America.

Culture America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African American illustrators.

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

Illustration of books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages).

Other Title:

Picturing the New Negro

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2022.

Summary:

"This innovative study examines the efforts of Harlem Renaissance artists and writers to create a hybrid expression of black identity that drew on their ancient past while participating in contemporary American culture. Caroline Goeser investigates a critical component of Harlem Renaissance print culture that until now has been largely overlooked, arguing that illustrations became the most timely and often most radical visual products of the movement." -- Jacket.

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 and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Publisher Number:

heb40145 hdl