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02876aam a2200385 i 4500 001 B9F76FF6A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171003010225 008 170112s2017 ilua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017001124 020 $a 0252041143 020 $a 9780252041143 035 $a (OCoLC)968346180 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d SPI $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ND237 M8524 W65 2017 100 1 $a Wolfskill, Phoebe, $e author. 245 10 $a Archibald Motley Jr. and racial reinvention : $b the old negro in new negro art / $c Phoebe Wolfskill. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xiii, 217 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The new Black studies series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The New Negro and Racial Reinvention -- The Art of Assimilation -- Migration, Class, and Black Religiosity -- "Humor Ill-Advised, If Not Altogether Tasteless?" Stereotype and the New Negro -- Old and New Negroes, Continued : Betye Saar and Kara Walker. 520 8 $a An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift. Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley's art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley's oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist's complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley's paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley's oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation. 600 10 $a Motley, Archibald John, $c Jr., $d 1891-1981 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a African Americans in art. 650 0 $a Ethnicity in art. 650 0 $a African American art $x Themes, motives. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wolfskill, Phoebe. $t Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention. $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017 $z 9780252099700 830 0 $a New Black studies series. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023520.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211022450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9F76FF6A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search