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Exhibiting blackness African Americans and the American art museum

Title
Exhibiting blackness [electronic resource] : African Americans and the American art museum / Bridget R. Cooks.
Author
Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.

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Description
1 online resource (xv, 205 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)
Uniform Title
Exhibiting blackness (Online)
Alternative Title
  • Exhibiting blackness (Online)
  • African Americans and the American art museum
Subject
  • Art museums > Social aspects > United States
  • African American art > Exhibitions > Social aspects
  • Art and society > United States
  • Art and race
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-192) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2011021565
OCLC
ssj0000606350
Author
Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-
Title
Exhibiting blackness [electronic resource] : African Americans and the American art museum / Bridget R. Cooks.
Imprint
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-192) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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