Archibald J. Motley Jr

Archibald J. Motley Jr

Author: Amy M. Mooney

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Extraordinary artist whose social consciousness extended beyond his paintings. Book jacket.


Archibald Motley

Archibald Motley

Author: Richard J. Powell

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780938989370

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Featuring 140 color illustrations, the catalogue Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist accompanies the first full-scale survey of the work of the American painter and master colorist Archibald Motley (1891-1981).


Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention

Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention

Author: Phoebe Wolfskill

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-08-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0252099702

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An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift. Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley's art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley's oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist's complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley’s paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley's oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation.


A History of African-American Artists

A History of African-American Artists

Author: Romare Bearden

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 600

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A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of the enigma of Joshua Johnston, a late eighteenth-century portrait painter widely assumed by historians to be one of the earliest known African-American artists, Bearden and Henderson go on to examine the careers of Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Edmonia Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Hale A. Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Charles H. Alston, Ellis Wilson, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Horace Pippin, Alma W. Thomas, and many others. Illustrated with more than 420 black-and-white illustrations and 61 color reproductions -- including rediscovered classics, works no longer extant, and art never before seen in this country -- A History of African-American Artists is a stunning achievement.


Colored Pictures

Colored Pictures

Author: Michael D. Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807856963

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Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation


New Negro Artists in Paris

New Negro Artists in Paris

Author: Theresa A. Leininger-Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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This book analyzes the experiences and works of six African American artists who lived and worked in Paris during the Jazz Age. More than 120 works of art are analyzed, many never before published. The author argues that it was study abroad that won these artists critical acclaim, establishing their reputations as some of the most significant leaders of the New Negro movement in the visual arts. She begins her study with a history of the debut of African American artists in Paris, 1830-1914 ...


Bronzeville at Night 1949

Bronzeville at Night 1949

Author: Vida Cross

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780997193848

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A debut poetry collection by Vida Cross referencing her ancestry as a third generation Chicagoan, a Bronzeville resident, the artwork of Archibald J. Motley Jr., and the poetic research of Langston Hughes. The people who inhabit Cross' Poetry are alive and full of energy, but in the creases that line their smiles, there's a certain exhaustion-- an anxiety brewing-- and a unique pain on the street corner, in the bedroom, and alone beating within the breast.


The Muse in Bronzeville

The Muse in Bronzeville

Author: Robert Bone

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0813550432

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A dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history from the early 1930s to the cold war, and the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakenting that occurred on Chicago's South Side -- from cover.


Going There

Going There

Author: Richard J. Powell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-10-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0300245742

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A kaleidoscopic survey of black satire in 20th- and 21st-century American art In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Powell argues that it has a distinctly African American lineage. Taking on some of the most controversial works of the past century—in all their complexity, humor, and provocation—Powell raises important questions about the social power of art. Expansive in both historical reach and breadth of media presented, Going There interweaves discussions of such works as the midcentury cartoons of Ollie Harrington, the installations of Kara Walker, the paintings of Robert Colescott, and the movies of Spike Lee. Other artists featured in the book include David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Beverly McIver, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, and Carrie Mae Weems. Thoroughly researched and rich in context, Going There is essential reading in the history of satire, racial politics, and contemporary art.


Art in Chicago, 1945-1995

Art in Chicago, 1945-1995

Author: Lynne Warren

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Significant bodies of work in residence there. Among the artists profiled are Roger Brown, Harry Callahan, Ruth Duckworth, Jeanne Dunning, Leon Golub, Robert Heinecken, Richard Hunt, June Leaf, Kerry James Marshall, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Hirsch Perlman, Martin Puryear, Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Miroslaw Rogala, Alejandro Romero, Kay Rosen, Hollis Sigler, Aaron Siskind, Nancy Spero, Tony Tasset, H.C. Westermann, Claire Zeisler,