Research Catalog

Title

Among others : Blackness at MoMA / Darby English and Charlotte Barat ; [foreword by Glenn D. Lowry].

Author

English, Darby, 1974-

Publication

• New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]
• New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barat, Charlotte
• Lowry, Glenn D.
• Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

475 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 x 24 cm

Summary

"This expansive collection of essays on nearly 200 works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art is the first substantial exploration of MoMA's uneven historical relationship with black artists, black audiences and the broader subject of racial blackness. By addressing these subjects through the consideration of works produced either by black artists or in response to race-related subjects, 'Among Others' confronts two kinds of truth: one plainly factual and informative, the other moral. It is equal parts historical investigation and truth-telling about the Museum's role in the history of the cultural politics of race. The richly illustrated volume begins with two historical essays. The first, by Darby English and Charlotte Barat, traces the history of MoMA's encounters with racial blackness since its founding--from an early commitment to African art and solo exhibitions devoted to the work of artists such as William Edmondson and Jacob Lawrence in the 1930s and 1940s, to its activities during the Civil Rights Movement, to the controversial Primitivism show of 1984 and beyond. The second essay, by Mabel O. Wilson, scrutinizes the Museum's record in collecting the work of black architects and designers. Following these essays are nearly 200 plates, each accompanied by an essay by one of the over 100 authors who hail from a range of fields." --

Alternative Title

• Among others : Blackness at the Museum of Modern Art
• Blackness at MoMA
• Blackness at the Museum of Modern Art

Subjects

• Museums and minorities
• Race in art
• Museums and minorities > New York (State) > New York
• Art > New York (State) > New York
• Blacks in art
• Artists, Black
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• New York (State) > New York
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) History
• African Americans > Race identity
• African Americans in art
• African American artists
• Blacks > Race identity
• History
• Art and race > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Contributing authors include Esther Adler, Margaret Aldredge-Diamond, Sean Anderson, Carol Armstrong, Julie Ault, Quentin Bajac, Charlotte Barat, Dawoud Bey, Giampaolo Bianconi, Klaus Biesenbach, Gregg Bordowitz, Jessica Bell Brown, Linda Goode Bryant, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Kaira M. Cabañas, Andrianna Campbell, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Sophie Cavoulacos, Mary Weaver Chapin, Christophe Cherix, Lisa Collins, Stuart Comer, Roberto Conduru, Lynne Cooke, John Corbett, Kate Cowcher, Douglas Crimp, Thomas Crow, Emily Cushman, Edwidge Danticat, J. Michael Dash, Samuel R. Delany, Leah Dickerman, Liz Donato, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Adrienne Edwards, Peter Eleey, Anthony Elms, Darby English, Starr Figura, Jacqueline Francis, Samantha Friedman, Diana Fuss, Samba Gadjigo, Ellen Gallagher, Lucy Gallun, Kristen Gaylord, Hanna Girma, Robert Gober, Karen Grimson, Rachel Haidu, Irena Haiduk, Claudrena N. Harold, Phillip Brian Harper, Jenny Harris, Jodi Hauptman, Cannon Hersey, Heidi Hirschl Orley, Harmony Holiday, Laura Hoptman, Amanda Hunt, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Ashley James, Ana Janevski, Martha Joseph, Bouchra Khalili, Byron Kim, Michelle Kuo, Abigail Lapin Dardashti, Thomas J. Lax, Glenn Ligon, Ron Magliozzi, Cara Manes, Roxana Marcoci, Kerry James Marshall, Courtney J. Martin, Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Mia Matthias, Sarah Hermanson Meister, Kobena Mercer, Carmen Merport Quiñones, Richard Meyer, Jocelyn Miller, Anne Monahan, Anne Morra, Fred Moten, Sasha Nicholas, Tavia Nyong'o, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Kirsi Peltomäki, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Paulina Pobocha, Antonia Pocock, Ross Posnock, Richard J. Powell, Martin Puryear, Christian Rattemeyer, Yasmil Raymond, Hillary Reder, Jodi Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Schlenzka, Abbe Schriber, Christina Sharpe, Kelly Sidley, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Slifkin, Jenni Sorkin, Katerina Stathopoulou, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Greg Tate, Lanka Tattersall, Phil Taylor, Hervé Télémaque, Ann Temkin, Akili Tommasino, Ana Torok, Luc Tuymans, Anne Umland, Sarah Van Beurden, Niko Vicario, Susan Vogel, Anne M. Wagner, Kara Walker, Kenneth W. Warren, Deborah Willis, Sharon Willis, Leslie Wilson, Mabel O. Wilson, Edith Wolfe, Sebastian Zeidler.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Blackness at MoMA: a legacy of deficit / Charlotte Barat and Darby English -- White by design / Mabel O. Wilson -- Among others: plates.

Call Number

Sc+ F 19-371

ISBN

• 9781633450349
• 1633450341

LCCN

2019939366

OCLC

1086343696

Author

English, Darby, 1974- author.

Title

Among others : Blackness at MoMA / Darby English and Charlotte Barat ; [foreword by Glenn D. Lowry].

Publisher

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]

Distributor

New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Barat, Charlotte, author.

Lowry, Glenn D., writer of foreword.

Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.), contributing author.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 19-371

JQF 21-239