Images of Black Modernism
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Aaron Siskind visual work
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black body representation in art
Carl Van Vechten photography
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challenging entrenched racia
challenging stereotypes in literature
contested visual representations
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creative tension in black expression
critical analysis of satire
critique of early modernist literature
cultural history of black America
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dialect and cultural authenticity
early twentieth-century black modernism
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experimental African American literature
experimentation in African American writing
George Schuyler criticism
Harlem as cultural site
Harlem on My Mind exhibition analysis
Harlem Renaissance visual culture
historiography of black modernism
Infants of the Spring scholarship
innovative narrative techniques
integration of literature and photography
intersection of text and image
James Van Der Zee portraiture
James Weldon Johnson studies
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literary experimentation with visual elements
memory and memorialization in literature
Metropolitan Museum of Art controversies
narrative and photographic experimentation
Nella Larsen literary analysis
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photography and racial representation
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race and materiality in art
racial imagery in early twentieth-century art
redefining black cultural modernism
reimagining black identity
reshaping perceptions of race
social commentary through visual art
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spiritual and corporeal expression
textual and visual hybridity
underrecognized black visual artists
visual aesthetics in African American studies
visual narrative in black artistic expression
Wallace Thurman studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781558498310
- Weight: 459g
- Dimensions: 160 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2010
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, such as ""Negro"" dialect. By paying special attention to the contributions of photographers and other visual artists who have not been discussed in previous accounts of black modernism, Thaggert expands the scope of our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and contributes to a growing recognition of the importance of visual culture as a distinct element within, and not separate from, black literary studies. Thaggert trains her critical eye on the work of James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, Carl Van Vechten, James Van Der Zee, and Aaron Siskind--artists who experimented with narrative and photographic techniques in order to alter the perception of black images and to question and reshape how one reads and sees the black body. Examining some of the more problematic authors and artists of black modernism, she challenges entrenched assumptions about black literary and visual representations of the early to mid twentieth century. Thaggert concludes her study with a close look at the ways in which Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance were reimagined and memorialized in two notable texts--Wallace Thurman's 1932 satire Infants of the Spring and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's controversial 1969 exhibition ""Harlem on My Mind: The Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968.
