| Description |
xvii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Catalog of an exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Sept. 8-Dec. 2, 2007; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, January 18-April 13, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., May 9-August 3, 2008; Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, August 30-November 30, 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert E. Hemenway -- Directors' Foreword / Saralyn Reece Hardy and Victor D. Simmons -- Introduction / Kinshasha Holman Conwill -- Harlem, modernism, and beyond: Aaron Douglas and his role in art/history / Susan Earle -- The Aaron Douglas effect / Richard J. Powell -- Aaron Douglas: influences and impacts of the early years / Cheryl R. Ragar -- Some observations on Aaron Douglas as tastemaker in the renaissance movement / David C. Driskell -- Creating a "usable past" and a "future perfect society": Aaron Douglas's murals for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition / Renée Ater -- The fisk murals revealed: memories of Africa, hope for the future / Amy Helene Kirschke -- Plates -- Chronology / Stephanie Fox Knappe. |
| Subject |
Douglas, Aaron -- Exhibitions.
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African American artists -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Earle, Susan Elizabeth.
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Ater, Renée.
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Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
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Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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| ISBN |
9780300121803 alkaline paper |
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0300121806 alkaline paper |
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