Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Amy Helene Kirschke.

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"Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more...

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Other Authors: Kirschke, Amy Helene (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Subjects:
African American women artists.
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Physical Description:xix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Harlem and the Renaissance : 1920 1940 000 / Cary D. Wintz
  • Lifting as She Climbed : Mary Edmonia Lewis, Representing and Representative / Kirsten Pai Buick
  • Meta Warrick Fuller's Ethiopia and the America's Making Exposition of 1921 / Renée Ater
  • Laura Wheeler Waring and the Women Illustrators of the Harlem Renaissance / Amy Helene Kirschke
  • May Howard Jackson, Beulah Ecton Woodard, and Selma Burke / Lisa E. Farrington
  • Modern Dancers and African Amazons : Augusta Savage's Daring Sculptures of Women, 1929-1930 / Theresa Leininger-Miller
  • The Wide-Ranging Significance of Loïs Mailou Jones / Susan Earle
  • Elizabeth Catlett : Inheriting the Legacy / Melanie Anne Herzog.