Research Catalog

Title

Rhapsodies in Black : art of the Harlem Renaissance / [exhibition devised and selected by Richard J. Powell and David A. Bailey ; catalogue edited by Joanna Skipwith]

Publication

• London : Hayward Gallery : Institute of International Visual Arts ; Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
• ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Powell, Richard J., 1953-
• Bailey, David A.
• Skipwith, Joanna.
• Hayward Gallery. issuing body. event place.
• Institute of International Visual Arts. issuing body.
• M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. event place.
• Corcoran Gallery of Art. event place.

Description

182 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

• Rhapsodies in Black takes a fresh look at the Harlem Renaissance, contesting narrow interpretations of it as an isolated phenomenon confined to artists of color inhabiting a few square miles of Manhattan and, instead, recognizing it as a historical moment of global significance, with connections to Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and other parts of the United States, in particular Chicago and the Deep South. Like jazz musicians, the artists of the Harlem Renaissance era traveled and interacted, and their art was cosmopolitan, inspired by European modernism as well as the cultural and artistic groundswell of black America.
• Two influences dominated in the art of early modernism: African art and the vitality of big city life. In Harlem, as in Paris and Berlin, artists were inspired to seek new forms and to collaborate on performances, films, and publications. Rhapsodies in Black speaks across the arts, reaching out from an exploration of the painters and sculptors of the time to consider film, theater, and dance. With contributions by distinguished authors from both sides of the Atlantic, it offers a kaleidoscope of provocative readings, showing that the issues and ideas of the Harlem Renaissance still resonate today.

Alternative Title

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

Subjects

• Art, Modern > 20th century > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• African American art > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• Harlem Renaissance > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibitions
• Exhibition
• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London June 19-Aug. 17, 1997; the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Jan. 17-Mar. 15, 1998; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. D.C., Apr. 11-June 22, 1998, and at 2 other locations.
• Jointly published by the Hayward Gallery, the Institute of International Visual Arts, London and the University of California Press.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Credits (note)

• At foot of t.p.: SBC.

Contents

Re/birth of a nation / Richard J. Powell -- Voodoo MacBeth / Simon Callow -- Like the gypsy's daughter : or beyond the potency of Josephine Baker's eroticism / Andrea D. Barnwell -- Paul Robeson and the problem of modernism / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- Modern tones / Paul Gilroy -- Still / Martina Attille -- Harlem on our minds / Henry Louis Gates Jr.

ISBN

• 185332163X
• 9781853321634
• 0520212630
• 9780520212633
• 0520212681
• 9780520212688

LCCN

97020475

OCLC

• ocm36900931
• 36900931
• SCSB-2130406

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library