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Negro Masks

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Description: Alain Locke and the Visual Arts
In an exquisite sepia portrait, we see printmaker James Lesesne Wells looking intently at the Bakuba ceremonial cup he holds in his hands...
PublisherYale University Press
PublisherHutchins Center for African & African American Research
Related print edition pages: pp.35-91
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00339.2
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...
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...
PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.11-52
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.005
Description: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
The upbeat lyric by Ira Gershwin quoted in the epigraph, set to a bouncy, captivating melody recovered from the papers left by his recently deceased brother George, served as the official anthem of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. “Dawn of a New Day,” like the fair itself, exemplified one sort of possible response to recent, worrisome historical events. Its metaphors were not very fresh—gray skies, the wolf at the door—but the message was none the less attractive for that. Perhaps the hard …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.49-120
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00101.005

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