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Author:

Douglas, Aaron.

Title:

Aaron Douglas : African American modernist / edited by Susan Earle ; with essays and contributions by Renée Ater ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Yale University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvii, 253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Douglas, Aaron--Exhibitions.
African American artists--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Earle, Susan Elizabeth.
Ater, Renée.
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Notes:

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. Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

ISBN:

0300121806 (alk. paper)
9780300121803 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007008045

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)