Research Catalog

Title

Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity / Caroline Goeser.

Author

Goeser, Caroline.

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.

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Description

xiv, 360 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This innovative study examines the efforts of Harlem Renaissance artists and writers to create a hybrid expression of black identity that drew on their ancient past while participating in contemporary American culture. Caroline Goeser investigates a critical component of Harlem Renaissance print culture that until now has been largely overlooked, arguing that illustrations became the most timely and often most radical visual products of the movement."--book jacket.

Series Statement

CultureAmerica

Uniform Title

Culture America.

Subject

• African Americans in art
• Illustration of books > New York > 20th century
• Magazine illustration > New York > 20th century
• African American illustrators > New York
• Harlem Renaissance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-350) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : making black modern in the medium of illustration -- An overview of Harlem Renaissance illustrations and their reception. Strategizing from spaces between : Aaron Douglas and the art of illustrating ; From racial uplift to vernacular expression : commercial and little magazine illustrations ; "Worth the price of the book" : dust jacket and book illustrations ; Critical ambivalence : illustration's reception in print -- Critical themes in Harlem Renaissance illustration. Remaking the past, making the modern : race, gender, and the modern economy ; Religion as "power site of cultural resistance" ; Black and tan : racial and sexual crossings in Ebony and topaz ; "To smile satirically" : on wearing the minstrel mask -- A brief conclusion : on making black modern during the Renaissance and beyond.

ISBN

0700614664 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006026236
• 9780700614660

OCLC

70883198

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library