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Art of jazz : form/performance/notes / curators, David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, Vera Ingrid Grant ; organized by Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard Art Museums.

Title
Art of jazz : form/performance/notes / curators, David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, Vera Ingrid Grant ; organized by Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard Art Museums.
Publication
  • Cambridge : Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, [2017]
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Bindman, David
  • Blier, Suzanne Preston
  • Grant, Vera Ingrid
  • Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art host institution.
  • Harvard Art Museums host institution.
Description
175 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
This catalogue documents the exhibition Art of Jazz, a collaborative installation at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art and Harvard Art Museums. The book explores the intersection of the visual arts and jazz music, and presents a visual feast of full color plates of artworks, preceded by a series of essays.
Alternative Title
Form/performance/notes
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Jazz > Exhibitions
  • Jazz in art > Exhibitions
  • Jazz musicians in art > Exhibitions
  • African American jazz musicians > Exhibitions
  • Art and music > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
Note
  • Catalog of a three-part exhibition; "Form", held at University of Teaching Gallery, Harvard Museums, January 23-May 8, 2016; "Performance", Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, February 3-May 8, 2016; "Notes", Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, February 3-May 8, 2016.
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Contents
Foreword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Art of Jazz: form/performance/notes: an unexpected trio ensemble / Vera Ingrid Grant -- Introduction to Form and Performance / David Bindman and Suzanne Preston Blier -- The spirit of Archibald Motley's Jazz Age: gettin' religion in urban America / Miriam Goshadze -- Norman Lewis: Jazz and the transition from figuration to abstraction / Ellen Poile -- The artist's book of the dead: Matisse's jazz album and color relationships / Chiamei Liu -- Stuart Davis and jazz: dig that fine art jive / Alexandra Thornton -- Viktor Schreckengost's 'Jazz' punchbowl series: performing culture and race / Suzanne Preston Blier -- All that jazz: Hugh Bell's photographs of the 1950s New York jazz scene / Mira Xenia Schwerda -- On notes: a conversation / Vera Ingrid Grant and Jessica Williams -- Works in the exhibition -- Exhibition checklist.
ISBN
  • 0674980263
  • 9780674980266
OCLC
  • 981960851
  • SCSB-10409957
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library