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Cedric Dover's American Negro Art First Edition 1960 From the Harlem Renaissance to Postwar Modernism

1960ref. 236661960. Cedric Dover's survey of African American visual art from early portraiture through the postwar period published in 1960 while the work of Black artists remained marginal within standard American art histories. Dover connects artistic production to slavery emancipation migration industrial labor the Harlem Renaissance federal arts programs and the growth of Black cultural institutions. Reproductions of works by Aaron Douglas Charles White Richmond Barthé Jacob Lawrence William H. Johnson Hale Woodruff Selma Burke and others establish a lineage across painting sculpture drawing printmaking and mural art. Dover Cedric. American Negro Art. New York: New York Graphic Society 1960. First edition. 186 pages. 8vo. Hardcover in original brown cloth with silver spine lettering extensively illustrated in black and white and color no dust jacket. The volume opens with Charles White's 1958 ink drawing based on the spiritual "One of a series of ink drawings based on the spirituals" and includes Aaron Douglas's The Negro Looks Ahead Richmond Barthé's sculpted head Hubert Howard's Show Girl Jacob Lawrence's Ambulance Call and a color reproduction of Aaron Douglas's A Harlem Matron. Dover's text addresses the circumstances under which Black artists studied exhibited and found patronage with sections including "Mulattoes and Atelier Art" "For Aaron Douglas" and "The Artists." One illustrated spread reproduces Charles White's mural sketch for the Harlem Hospital beside Douglas's The Continuation of Life while another places a photograph of industrial workers beside Hale Woodruff's printmaking and William H. Johnson's Aunt Alice. Dover an Anglo Indian writer and scholar who published extensively on race anthropology and modern art presents African American art as a continuous field shaped by both formal experimentation and the political conditions governing Black life. His discussion of Harlem Renaissance circles historically Black colleges museum access commercial galleries and federal patronage records the institutional structures through which artists built careers despite segregation and restricted exhibition opportunities. The book's period terminology including its title and chapter language records the vocabulary through which African American art was categorized by publishers and scholars at midcentury. Light shelf wear to binding; permanent marker block on title page else clean and firmly bound. Overall very good condition. A substantial midcentury attempt to place African American artists within the history of American modernism through named works institutions movements and individual careers. unknown books

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Cedric Dover's American Negro Art First Edition 1960 From the Harlem Renaissance to Postwar Modernism

Max Rambod Inc. · Estados Unidos225,00 US$≈ 201,40 €

Carter Godwin Woodson; Journal of Negro History Quarterly ArchiveABAA

Carter G. Woodson's Journal of Negro History Issues Featuring Black Religious History Abolition Studies and African Diasporic Scholarship 1931-1938

1931ref. 217891931. Woodson Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History. Archive of two significant issues published in 1931 and 1938 documenting the institutional growth and expanding scholarly scope of African American historiography during the interwar period. The material records Black intellectual production historical scholarship and diasporic research through the editorial and publishing activities of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History founded by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland in 1915. These issues include scholarship on slavery Reconstruction Black religious institutions international colonial politics abolitionist movements and urban Black life at a time when Black scholarship remained marginalized within predominantly white academic institutions. The journal served as one of the principal vehicles through which Black historians circulated archival research fostered interdisciplinary inquiry and established African American history as a formal academic field. The archive provides primary-source evidence for the maturation of Black historical studies and diasporic intellectual thought in the early twentieth century. Woodson Carter Godwin ed. The Journal of Negro History. Lancaster PA and Washington D.C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History 1931 and 1938. Two issues in publisher's printed wrappers comprising Vol. XVI No. 4 October 1931 and Vol. XXIII No. 2 April 1938. Each issue measures approximately 10 x 6.5 inches and contains 125 and 144 pages respectively. 1 Vol. XVI No. 4 October 1931. Includes Eugene Portlette Southall's "The Attitude of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Toward the Negro from 1844 to 1870" examining racial theology and denominational policy during and after slavery. Rayford W. Logan contributes "The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan a Problem in International Relations" an early analysis of colonial governance and African international politics anticipating his later work in Pan-African and diplomatic studies. Leo H. Hirsch Jr.'s extensive "The Negro and New York 1783 to 1865" surveys slavery free Black life and antislavery politics in New York before the Civil War. The issue concludes with organizational reports and a memorial tribute titled "The Passing of George W. Cook." 2 Vol. XXIII No. 2 April 1938. Opens with Benjamin Quarles's "The Breach Between Douglass and Garrison" reassessing the political and ideological divide between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison within abolitionist movements and Black political organizing. Charles H. Wesley contributes "The Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship in the British Empire" situating emancipation and labor reform within broader imperial and diasporic contexts. Anthropologists Hortense Powdermaker and Joseph Semper examine labor and education patterns among African Americans in Connecticut through "Education and Occupation among New Haven Negroes" while Waldemar Westergaard's "A St. Croix Map of 1796" analyzes plantation geography and Caribbean slavery through archival cartographic evidence. The issue additionally contains scholarly reviews in English and French reflecting the journal's international intellectual orientation. These issues record the widening methodological and geographic range of African American scholarship during the interwar years when Black historians connected local histories of slavery and segregation to international questions of empire labor abolition and diasporic identity. The journal's interdisciplinary composition includes historical research anthropology political analysis religious studies and archival geography within a single scholarly forum. Contributions by Rayford Logan Benjamin Quarles Charles H. Wesley and Hortense Powdermaker reflect the emergence of scholars and allied researchers who reshaped twentieth-century understandings of African American and diasporic history. Minor edgewear and faint toning to wrappers with light handling wear; overall very good condition. A pair of interwar issues documenting the consolidation and internationalization of early African American historical scholarship. unknown books