Research Catalog

Title

Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today / Denise Murrell.

Author

Murrell, Denise

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wallach Art Gallery, organizer, host institution, publisher.
• Musée d'Orsay, host institution.

Description

xvii, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map; 27 cm

Summary

"This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic "other." Denise Murrell explores the little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet's reconsideration of the black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in dialogue with the urbane "New Negro" portraiture style with which Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a look at how Manet's and Matisse's depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimé Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its multiple voices."--Publisher's description

Subject

• Artists' models > Black people > Exhibitions
• African American models > Exhibitions
• Artists and models in art
• Black people in art > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > Europe > Exhibitions
• Black people > France > Paris
• Harlem Renaissance
• African American models
• Art
• Blacks
• Modernism (Art)
• Europe
• France > Paris
• United States

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Exhibition: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, USA (October 24, 2018-February 10, 2019); Musée d'Orsay (March 26-July 14, 2019).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword and acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: the gift of Olympia -- Prologue : Manet's Laure and the histories of art -- Olympia in context: Manet, the Impressionists, and black Paris -- Affinities and interface: modern portraits of black women in the art of Matisse and the Harlem Renaissance -- A reimagined legacy: the black female figure from Bearden to now -- Profiles of three models.

Call Number

Sc+ F 19-218

ISBN

• 9780300229066
• 0300229062

LCCN

2018940358

OCLC

1057472594

Author

Murrell, Denise, author.

Title

Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today / Denise Murrell.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wallach Art Gallery, organizer, host institution, publisher.

Musée d'Orsay, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 19-218

JQF 19-770