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Imprint:	New York, NY : American Federation of Arts, 2022. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ©2022
Description:	223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Art, African -- Appreciation -- United States -- Exhibitions. Artists -- Africa -- Exhibitions. African American artists -- Exhibitions. Africans -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Africans in art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Modernism (Art) -- Africa -- Exhibitions. Modernism (Art) -- African influences -- Exhibitions. Modernism (Art) -- African influences. Artists. Modernism (Art) Africans -- Social life and customs. Africa. United States. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12832152

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Other authors / contributors:	Lathrop, Perrin M., editor. Okeke-Agulu, Chika, author of afterword. Fisk University. University Galleries, host institution. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, host institution. Phillips Collection, host institution. Taft Museum of Art, host institution.
ISBN:	9781885444110 1885444117
Notes:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee, October 7, 2022-February 11, 2023; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, March 10-August 6, 2023; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., October 7, 2023-January 7, 2024; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 10-May 19, 2024. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.
Summary:	Between 1947 and 1967, institutions such as the Harmon Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and historically Black colleges and universities collected and exhibited works by many of the most important African artists of the mid-twentieth century, including Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Gerard Sekoto (South Africa), Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). The inventive and irrefutably contemporary nature of these artists' paintings, sculptures, and works on paper defied typical Western narratives about African art being isolated in a "primitive" past. Providing an unprecedented examination of the complex connections between modern African artists and American patrons amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War, this fascinating volume reveals a transcontinental network of artists, curators, and scholars that challenged assumptions about African art in the United States and encouraged American engagement with African artists as contemporaries.

Table of Contents:

Art from Africa of our time: African modernism in America, 1947-1967 / Perrin M. Lathrop
Sam Joseph Nitro, Skunder Boghossian, and modern African art in turbulent times / Kate Cowcher
Negro, mind: Jacob Lawrence processes the diaspora / Paul C. Taylor
Ladi Kwali: Ceramics, art, and modernism between African and American, 1961-1972 / Ozioma Onuzulike
African art at Fisk University: Charles S. Johnson, Aaron Douglas, and David C. Driskell / Nikoo Paydar
Interview with David C. Driskell / Jamaal B. Sheats
The politics of selection: Maria Magdalena Compos-Pons, Ndidi Dike, and Perrin M. Lathrop
Artists
Afterword: Modern art in the age of Pan-Africanism / Chika Okeke-Agula.

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