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University Press of Mississippi, Jackson
Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also...
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Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more serious barrier. Including seventy-two black and white illustrations, this book chronicles the challenges of women artists, who are in some cases unknown to the general public, and places their achievements in the artistic and cultural context of early twentieth-century America. Contributors to th
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Harlem and the Renaissance: 1920-1940; CHAPTER TWO: Lifting as She Climbed: Mary Edmonia Lewis, Representing and Representative; CHAPTER THREE: Meta Warrick Fuller's Ethiopia and the America's Making Exposition of 1921; CHAPTER FOUR: Laura Wheeler Waring and the Women Illustrators of the Harlem Renaissance; CHAPTER FIVE: May Howard Jackson, Beulah Ecton Woodard, and Selma Burke; CHAPTER SIX: Modern Dancers and African Amazons: Augusta Savage's Daring Sculptures of Women, 1929-1930
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Wide-Ranging Significance of Loïs Mailou JonesCHAPTER EIGHT: Elizabeth Catlett: Inheriting the Legacy; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
