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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goeser, Caroline, author.

Series:

CultureAmerica Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Chronicles the vibrant partnership between literary and visual African American artists that resulted in the image of the New Negro. In the process, demonstrates that commercial illustration represents the largest and, in some cases, most progressive body of visual art associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making Black Modern in the Medium of Illustration

Chapter 1. Strategizing from Spaces Between: Aaron Douglas and the Art of Illustrating

Chapter 2. From Racial Uplift to Vernacular Expression: Commercial and Little Magazine Illustrations

Chapter 3. "Worth the Price of the Book": Dust Jacket and Book Illustrations

Chapter 4. Critical Ambivalence: Illustration's Reception in Print

Chapter 5. Remaking the Past, Making the Modern: Race, Gender, and the Modern Economy

Chapter 6. Religion as "Power Site of Cultural Resistance"

Chapter 7. Black and Tan: Racial and Sexual Crossings in Ebony and Topaz

Chapter 8. "To Smile Satirically": On Wearing the Minstrel Mask

A Brief Conclusion: On Making Black Modern during the Renaissance and Beyond

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780700639601

0700639608