The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

Bindman, David; Gates Jr., Henry Louis

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BOOKThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146

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In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by essays written by major scholars, appeared in three large‐format volumes, consisting of one or more books, that quickly became collector’s items. A half‐century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to have republished five of the original books and five completely new ones, extending the series into the twentieth century.

The Rise of Black Artists, the second of two books on the twentieth century and the final volume in The Image of the Black in Western Art, marks an essential shift in the series and focuses on representation of blacks by black artists in the West. This volume takes on important topics ranging from urban migration within the United States to globalization, to Négritude and cultural hybridity, to the modern black artist’s relationship with European aesthetic traditions and experimentation with new technologies and media. Concentrating on the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean, essays in this volume shed light on topics such as photography, jazz, the importance of political activism to the shaping of black identities, as well as the post-black art world.

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Print publication date October 2014 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780674052697

EISBN 9780300244724

Illustrations 220

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List of illustrations

Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik Ambar
Aspects of Negro Life, The Negro in an African Setting
Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South
Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction
Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers
Portrait of Henry Thomas
Naked Figure from Behind
Bill Traylor, Symbols
Ku Klux Klan
Death (Lynched Figure)
Lovers
The Four Continents, Africa
The Banjo Lesson
The Warrick Tableaux–Commencement Day
Untitled (Six Negro Leaders)
Quadroon Madonna
Mother and Daughter
Chester
WPA: Kids involved in painting and sculpture based upon spirituals, Jacksonville, Florida
Employment of the Negro in Agriculture
Emancipation of the Negro Slaves panel from "The Civil War" mural
Scottsboro Boys
Cycle of a Woman's Life, "Childhood" panel
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Self-Portrait (Myself at Work)
Self-Portrait
Negro Masks
Charlot
In Search of His Dream
Self-Portrait
Untitled
Untitled
The Breakdown
War Series: Going Home
Rabbit Man
Untitled
Frontispiece
Harlem Couple
Standing Conjure Woman
Untitled (African American Girl, half-length portrait, with right hand to cheek, with illustrated book on table)
Portrait of Willie Gee
Mask
Victory Monument
Portrait of Langston Hughes
The Octoroon Girl
High Yaller
Maudelle Bass Weston
Lieutenant Henry Benjamin Scott, United States Army Air Corps
Self-Portrait as a Young Man with a Mirror
The Drop Sinister—What Shall We Do With It?
Girl in a Red Dress
Deposition (Feral Benga)
The Wall
Black Soldier
Tin Can Battle, San Juan Hill, New York
Harlem at Night
Portrait of James VanDerZee
Harlem
Midsummer Night in Harlem
Green Pastures: Walls of Jericho
Lenox Avenue
Untitled
Harlem Series No. 20: In the Evening Evangelists Preach and Sing on Street Corners
Moon over Harlem
Negro Dance Hall
Negro Girl Dancer
Rise Shine for Thy Light Has Come
Rhapsody in Blue
Blues
Cabaret
Lift Every Voice and Sing (the Harp)
Jitterbugs (V)
The Blues Has Got Me
Jazz Quartet
Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia
Hampton students, training in woodworking, building a stairway in a house in Hampton, Virginia
Portrait of Pal
Booker T. Washington
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Brown Madonna
Paul Robeson
The Boss
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
Untitled
Zora Neale Hurston
Washington, D.C. government charwoman/American Gothic
Fanny Lou Hamer Civil Rights Campaigner Visits a Southern Family
Birmingham, Alabama. 1963. Arrest of a Demonstrator
USA. Baltimore, MD. October 31, 1964. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being greeted on his return to the US after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize
Coretta Scott King
Malcolm X at Rally, Chicago, Illinois
Muhammad Ali Taunting Sonny Liston
Black Light Series #11: US American Black
Freedom. Black Panther
Wives of Shango #1
Relate to Your Heritage
Revolutionary
The Black Prince
Poster of Angela Davis
Black Unity
Injustice Case
Mysteries
Harriet
Captivity and Resistance
Mammy (from the "Myths" portfolio)
The New Jemima
Homage to Langston Hughes
George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook
Washington Crossing the Delaware, 25th December 1776
Homage to Nina Simone
Homage to Nina Simone, detail
Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald
Lawdy Mama
New Orleans Niggah
Jack Johnson
I am Black, I am Dangerously Black
The Mythic Being: I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear
Night Journey
Self Portrait as Beni ("I Dream Again of Benin"), July 13, 1974
Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba
Autobiography: Water/Ancestors/Middle Passage/Family Ghosts
Fetish #2
The History of Her Life Written Across Her Face
Self-Portrait as a Heel, part two
Untitled (Potato Eaters)
Untitled (Seated Man)
Jazz
Harlem Jazz Jamboree
Four Figures
Musicians (aka Street Musicians)
Untitled
Jazz Musicians
Street Music
Untitled (Alabama)
Pink Boogie
Trane
Mamelodi (from the "Lynch Fragment" series)
April 4
I. D.
It Was Clear, I Was Not Manet's Type
Standing on Shakey Ground / I Posed Myself for Critical Study / But Was No Longer Certain / Of the Questions to Ask
But It Could Have Been Worse / Imagine My Fate Had / de Kooning Gotten / Hold of Me
I Knew, Not from Memory, / But from Hope, That There Were Other / Models by Which to Live
I Took a Tip from Frida / Who from Her Bed Painted Incessantly − Beautifully / While Diego Scaled the Scaffolds / To the Top of the World
Courbet 3 (Sleep)
Venus
Baby Back (from the "American" series)
Sweetness and Light: Great House People (no. 4)
After Duchamp
Girl with a Bamboo Earring
Branded Head (from the series "Branded")
Untitled (Silver Handcuffs)
The Merchant of Venice
Negerhosen 2000/The Travel Albums v.2
Plastic Bodies
Being Seen for the Camera
Diva at 73
Mrs. Black, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. White
Lipstick
Dios Mio Gabbana
Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper)
Guarded Conditions
From Someone Else's Fear/Fantasy to Metamorphosis
Derrick Cross
Paris is Burning
Looking for Langston, film still
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Many Mansions
Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)
Synecdoche
Cabinetmaking, 1820-1960, from "Mining the Museum"
Sites of Genealogy
Ode
The Rites of Passage, from "A Ship Called Jesus"
Between the Two My Heart is Balanced
The Two Queens—Yemaya and Elizabeth I
How Does a Girl Like You Get to Be a Girl Like You?
Yellow Book #1
Untitled
I-Traits: Seated Presence
Nothing to Lose IV
Elevata
Bareroot
The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven, detail
After Black (To See or Not to See) and Before Black (To See or Not to See)
Afro Love and Unity
Rock Head
Michael Jackson and Bubbles
Loving Care. View of performance with Loving Care Hair Dye Natural Black at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1993
The Great White Way, 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street
Narcissus
DeLuxe. Detail
Homeward Bound
Portrait of Pablillos de Valladolid, Buffon de Phillip IV, II
Congo Man (from "How Do You Want Me?" series)
Soundsuit
House and Field
A3 Blackface #20
Daughters of the Dust, still
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, still
Deadpan, still
Inconsolable Memories, still
Ye Wonz Maibel (Deluge), still
The Eyes of Gutete Emerita
Lumumba
Vita Nova, still
Otolith III, still
A Different Utopia, digital screen grab
Stadia II
Untitled (Modernist House)
Ghost Money
In the House of My Father
City, London
Ghost series: "No. 4"
I Thought You Said You Were Leaving
Untitled
Moshekwa
Kingfisher
Peter's Back

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

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Preface to The Image of the Black in Western Art

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

The Image of the Black in Western Art was conceived by the late Dominique Schlumberger de Menil (1908–1997) and her husband, John (1904–1973), more than fifty years ago. The de Menils were known internationally for their patronage of artists such as René Magritte and Max Ernst as early as the 1930s, and eventually for the size and range of their art collection. Their...

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Acknowledgments

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

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Introduction

David Bindman

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

From its conception in the 1960s, The Image of the Black in Western Art project was guided by Dominique and Jean de Menil’s passionate concern with the struggle for civil rights for African Americans and by a deep respect for the...

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David Bindman

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1. After Slavery

Jacqueline Francis

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

In February 1940 the exhibition Bill Traylor—People’s Artist opened at the New South School and Gallery, a Montgomery, Alabama, cultural center dedicated to showing modern art and broadening and fostering southern culture. Miriam Rogers Fowler, “New South...

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Jacqueline Francis

PublisherHarvard University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.005

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Chapter subject tags:African American artists--United States--20th centuryAfrican diasporaTraylor, Bill, 1856-1949Racism in artLynching in artStereotypes (Social psychology) in artTanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937Sculpture, American--20th centuryDouglas, AaronHarlem RenaissanceMural painting and decoration, American--19th centuryPippin, Horace, 1888-1946Thrash, Dox, 1892-1965Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000

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2. New Negroes, Harlem, and Jazz (1900–1950)

Richard J. Powell

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

Writing during the United States of Americas full court involvement in World War II, the Peabody Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Roi Ottley concluded that the African American path to “liberty and peace, and an enriched life, free from want, oppression, violence, and proscription,” was a thorny one ...

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Richard J. Powell

PublisherHarvard University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.006

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Chapter subject tags:Harlem RenaissanceJazz in artAfrican American artists--United States--20th centuryDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Locke, Alain, 1885-1954African American photographersRacism in artDouglas, AaronMotley, Archibald John, Jr., 1891-1981

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3. Photography (1900–1970s)

Deborah Willis

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

As Elizabeth and Stuart Ewen state, “Amid the lethal racial climate of the early 1900s, some black leaders were inspired to employ [an] alternative photographic record as a weapon against the standard iconography of racism.” Elizabeth Ewen and Stuart Ewen, Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human...

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Deborah Willis

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.105-128

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.007

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Chapter subject tags:Harlem RenaissanceAfrican American photographersDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963African Americans--Education--HistoryVan Der Zee, James, 1886-1983Stereotypes (Social psychology) in artPhotography--United States--20th centuryVan Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

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4. Activism and the Shaping of Black Identities (1964–1988)

Adrienne L. Childs

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

In the thick of the racially divisive American political climate of the 1960s civil rights era, Jean and Dominique de Menil embarked upon The Image of the Black in Western Art project, a herculean effort to document all of the images of blacks in Western art. They believed that...

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Adrienne L. Childs

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.131-178

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.008

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Chapter subject tags:Black Arts movementBlack people--Race identity--United States--History--20th centuryCivil rights movements--United States--History--20th centuryAfrican American artists--United States--20th centuryCatlett, Elizabeth, 1915-2012Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988

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5. Abstraction and Identity: Norman Lewis and the “Activity of Discovery”

Ruth Fine

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

Norman Wilfred Lewis (1909–1979) was not alone among African American painters of his generation who embraced the contemporary concerns of Abstract Expressionism, often conflating and juggling in their work this commitment to abstraction and figure-based representation. In his “Thesis, 1946” in Norman...

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Ruth Fine

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.179-196

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.009

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Chapter subject tags:African American artists--United States--20th centuryLewis, Norman, 1909-1979Abstract expressionism--United StatesHarlem RenaissanceJazz in art

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6. Contemporary Photography: [Re]presenting Art History

Deborah Willis

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

Contemporary photographers, many of them engaging storytellers and astute historians, have worked on the intersection of the private and public in art. The photographers discussed in this essay use appropriation, multiple printing, straight images, and screen-based images to make compelling statements about modern culture, identity, branding, beauty, gender, family, race, history, and...

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Deborah Willis

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.199-224

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.010

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Chapter subject tags:Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-Simpson, Lorna, 1960-Photography--21st centuryCampos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-Women artists, Black--21st centuryPhotographers, Black--21st centuryBlack people--Race identityGender identity in art

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7. New Practices, New Identities: Hybridity and Globalization

Kobena Mercer

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

The transformations brought to bear on representations of black people in Western art at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first were the result of numerous social, cultural, and political factors. First and foremost was the living presence of black artists within the institutions of artistic production. Artists of African descent had always been active in the world of...

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Kobena Mercer

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.225-300

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.011

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Chapter subject tags:Decolonization in artArtists, Black--20th centuryBlack people--Race identityWeems, Carrie Mae, 1953-Women artists, BlackPhotographers, BlackGender identity in artAfrican diaspora in artMarshall, Kerry James, 1955-Ligon, Glenn, 1960-Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-Walker, Kara Elizabeth

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