Images of Black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance / Miriam Thaggert.
| Author/creator | Thaggert, Miriam |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010. |
| Description | xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature -- Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect -- Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing -- Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler's Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum" -- Collectin' Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten -- A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind -- Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem" exhibition. |
| Local note | Little-360569--305131066552. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010018923 |
| ISBN | 9781558498303 (library cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1558498303 (library cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781558498310 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1558498311 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS153.B53 T455 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |