The Harlem Renaissance and transatlantic modernism : [Catalogue de l'exposition du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 25 février 2024-28 juillet 2024]
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Murrell Denise ; Metropolitan Museum of Art ;
- ISBN : 978-1-5883-9773-7
- Sujets : Harlem Renaissance, Musées, Art noir américain, New York (State) New York, Catalogues d'exposition
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (331 pages dont 133 planches), : Illustrations, portraits, photographies, jaquette et couverture illustrées en couleur, 29 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Bibliographie pages 304-317. Index
Résumé
'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.