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Author : Columbia University
Release : 1908
Genre : Artists
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Book Synopsis Exhibition of Portraits Owned by Columbia University, March 16th to March 31st, 1908 (inclusive). by : Columbia University
Download or read book Exhibition of Portraits Owned by Columbia University, March 16th to March 31st, 1908 (inclusive). written by Columbia University. This book was released on 1908. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Century Association (New York, N.Y.)
Release : 1908
Genre : Portraits, American
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Book Synopsis Exhibition of Portraits Owned by Columbia University by : Century Association (New York, N.Y.)
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Author : Denise Murrell
Release : 2018
Genre : African American models
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Book Synopsis Posing Modernity by : Denise Murrell
Download or read book Posing Modernity written by Denise Murrell. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art 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 Édouard 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. Featuring over 175 illustrations and profiles of several models, Posing Modernity illuminates long-obscured figures and proposes that a history of modernism cannot be complete until it examines the vital role of the black female muse within it. Published in association with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York Exhibition Schedule: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (10/24/18-02/10/19) Musée d'Orsay (03/25/19-07/14/19)
Author : Drew Sawyer
Release : 2011
Genre : Documentary photography
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Book Synopsis Social Forces Visualized by : Drew Sawyer
Download or read book Social Forces Visualized written by Drew Sawyer. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua I. Cohen
Release : 2016
Genre : Photography, Artistic
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Book Synopsis The Expanded Subject by : Joshua I. Cohen
Download or read book The Expanded Subject written by Joshua I. Cohen. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 19th-century studio practice through the independence era, African photography has best been known for modes of portraiture that crystallize the sitter's identity and social milieu. Even portraits by contemporary artists are often interpreted as windows into African realities. This exhibition reconsiders African contemporary photographic portraiture by presenting four practitioners whose concerns range well beyond questions of social identity. Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko, and George Osodi expand their subjects' interpretive possibilities, exemplifying a new creativity and versatility in portrait-making. While each artist employs different strategies, they all challenge the assumption that photographic portraits serve as mirrors of the "self." Baloji's montages dislocate the subject historically, Camara probes the boundaries of the portrait genre, Dicko expresses uncertainty at the possibility of representation, and Osodi engages his subjects as platforms for political commentary. The four artists enlist portraiture as a point of departure for exploring subjectivity, history, and photographic form. The Expanded Subject offers new insights into the expressive and conceptual range of African photo-portraiture today.
