Author: RenŽe AterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520262123
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Remaking Race and History
Author: RenŽe AterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520262123
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Amy Helene KirschkePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626742073
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more serious barrier. Including seventy-two black-and-white illustrations, this book chronicles the challenges of women artists, who are in some cases unknown to the general public, and places their achievements in the artistic and cultural context of early twentieth-century America. Contributors to this first book on the women artists of the Harlem Renaissance proclaim the legacy of Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Prophet, Lois Maillou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, and many other painters, sculptors, and printmakers. In a time of more rigid gender roles, women artists faced the added struggle of raising families and attempting to gain support and encouragement from their often-reluctant spouses in order to pursue their art. They also confronted the challenge of convincing their fellow male artists that they, too, should be seen as important contributors to the artistic innovation of the era.
Negro Building
Author: Mabel O. WilsonPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520383079
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Focusing on Black Americans' participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early Black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of Black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs. Originally published in 2012, the book reveals why the Black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major Black historical museums rather than the nation's capital, which would eventually become home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.
Writings on American History
Author: The Green Space
Author: Marion R. CaseyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479817457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"There is more to Irish than St. Patrick's Day and Guinness. The word Irish conjures an array of images, each with a long history. Who defined Irish? In the twentieth century Ireland, the United States, and Irish America were all invested in representation. Exerting or losing control of an ethnic image had ramifications on both sides of the Atlantic"--
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Met
Author: Jonathan ConlinPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231556179
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched over these works tell us about the museum? This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings. Jonathan Conlin tells the stories of the people who have shaped the museum—from curators and artists to museumgoers and security guards—and the communities that have made it their own. Highlighting inequalities of wealth, race, and gender, he exposes the hidden costs of the museum’s reliance on “robber barons” and oligarchs, the exclusionary immigration policies that influenced the foundation of the American Wing, and the obstacles faced by women curators. Drawing on extensive interviews with past and current staff, Conlin brings the story up to the present, including the museum’s troubled 150th anniversary in 2020. As the Met faces continued controversy, this book offers a timely account of the people behind an iconic institution and a compelling case for the museum’s vision of shared human creativity.
Divergent Jewish Cultures
Author: Deborah Dash MoorePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013021X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty percent of the world’s Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures. Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, leading Israeli and American scholars focus on the political, social, and memory cultures of their two communities, considering in particular the American Jewish challenge to diaspora consciousness and the Israeli struggle to forge a secular, national Jewish identity. At the same time, they seek to understand how a sense of mutual responsibility and fate animates American and Israeli Jews who reside in distant places, speak different languages, and live within different political and social worlds.
Children's Nature
Author: Leslie ParisPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814767826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
"The summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighbourhoods. This title chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century"--OCLC.
Program and Abstracts
Author: American Folklore Society. Annual MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description