Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 25, 2024-July 28, 2024--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-317) and index
Contents:
Photograph credits Contributors -- Lenders to the exhibition -- A political pageant : the Harlem Renaissance on parade / Claire Tancons -- The boys in the back room : gambling imagery during the Harlem Renaissance / Richard J. Powell -- A certain realism : the new in "the new negro" portraiture / Emily Braun -- James Van Der Zee and the global mobility of photographs / Emilie C. Boone -- Queer Harlem : gay sociability and transatlantic modernism / James Smalls -- Ronald Moody, international modernist / Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski -- Harlem and the Dutch Caribbean / Stephanie Archangel -- Artists from the Antilles in interwar Paris / Christelle Lozere -- Artists for victory and the WPA at The Met : catalytic acquisitions of work by African American artists in the early 1940s / Lowery Stokes Sims -- The Harlem Renaissance in exhibition / Bridget R. Cooks -- A political pageant : the Harlem Renaissance on parade / Claire Tancons -- Plates -- List of illustrations -- Notes to the essays -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photograph credits
Summary:
"In the 1920s and '30s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume examines for the first time the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity, with roots in the New Negro theories and aesthetics of Alain Locke, its founding philosopher. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Archibald Motley, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art, this publication also includes works by lesser-known contributors who took a radically new approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism." Yale University Press https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781588397737/the-harlem-renaissance-and-transatlantic-modernism/
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