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

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Main Author: Goeser, Caroline
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2007], ©2007.
Series:Culture America.
Subjects:
African Americans in art.
Illustration of books > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
Magazine illustration > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
African American illustrators > New York (State) > New York.
Harlem Renaissance.
Physical Description:xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.