Images of Black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance

Images of Black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance / Miriam Thaggert.

Author/creator	Thaggert, Miriam
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010.
Description	xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--African American authors --History and criticism. African Americans in literature. African Americans in art. Visual perception in literature. Art in literature. African American art--20th century. Harlem Renaissance. African Americans--Intellectual life --20th century. Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Contents	Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature -- Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect -- Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing -- Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler's Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum" -- Collectin' Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten -- A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind -- Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem" exhibition.
Local note	Little-360569--305131066552.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010018923
ISBN	9781558498303 (library cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	1558498303 (library cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781558498310 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1558498311 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS153.B53 T455 2010	✔ Available	Place Hold