Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today

Author:

Murrell, Denise

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, [2018]

Subject:

Artists' models - Black people - Exhibitions
African American models - Exhibitions
Artists and models in art
Black people in art - Exhibitions
Modernism (Art) - United States - Exhibitions
Modernism (Art) - Europe - Exhibitions
Black people - France - Paris
Harlem Renaissance
Art and Design
African American models
Art
Blacks
Modernism (Art)
Europe
France - Paris
United States

Contributor:

Wallach Art Gallery, organizer, host institution
Musée d'Orsay, host institution
Yale University Press, publisher

ISBN:

9780300257649 and 0300257643

Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages) : 84 illustrations (chiefly colour), map

Notes:

Description based on print version record and Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, USA (October 24, 2018-February 10, 2019) and the Musée d'Orsay (March 26-July 14, 2019)

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction : the gift of Olympia -- Prologue : Manet's Laure and the histories of art -- Olympia in context : Manet, the Impressionists, and Black Paris -- Affinities and interface : modern portraits of Black women in the art of Matisse and the Harlem Renaissance -- A reimagined legacy : the Black female figure from Bearden to now -- Profiles of three models

Summary:

"This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic "other." Denise Murrell explores the little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet's reconsideration of the black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in dialogue with the urbane "New Negro" portraiture style with which Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a look at how Manet's and Matisse's depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimé Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its multiple voices"--Publisher's description

Call Number:

N8232 .M87 2018eb