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Author:

Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-

Title:

Exhibiting blackness : African Americans and the American art museum / Bridget R. Cooks.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xv, 205 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Art museums--Social aspects--United States.
African American art--Exhibitions--Social aspects.
Art and society--United States.
Art and race.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A note on terminology -- Introduction. African Americans enter the art museum -- Negro art in the modern art museum -- Black artists and activism : Harlem on my mind, 1969 -- Filling the void : two centuries of black American art, 1976 -- New York to L.A. : black male : representations of black masculinity in contemporary American art, 1994-1995 -- Back to the future : The quilts of Gee's Bend, 2002 -- Conclusion. African Americans after the art museum -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

1558498753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558498754 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)696916060

LCCN:

2011021565

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)