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• Kara Walker

  Fons Americanus

  Walker, Kara Elizabeth,

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  Fons Americanus centers around the American artist Kara Walker and her Fall 2019 installation at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Throughtout the book are glimpses of the behind the scenes work Walker has done for the 13 meter tall working fountain.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remaking Race and History

  the Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller

  Ater, Renée,

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  Renee Ater gives a history of Meta Warrick Fuller and an introspection about the work behind her life sized statue Ethiopia, which is marked the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, and two other great works from Fuller. Learning about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Gothic

  Gordon Parks and Ella Watson

  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006,

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  Photographer Gordon Parks chronicles the life of a custodian Ella Watson, after taking advice from Roy Stryker, director of the historical section of the FSA, to engage in a conversation with the custodian after a discussion about Parks future.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race and Racism in Nineteenth-century Art

  the Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis

  Woods, Naurice Frank, Jr.,

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  Naurice Frank Woods Jr. introduces three Black American artists who started out in the antebellum period who have been excluded as having made significant contributions during that time period. A brief history for all three artists, Robert…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suffering and Sunset

  World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin

  Bernier, Celeste-Marie,

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  Celeste-Marie Bernier takes on the challenge of bringing the story of Horace Pippin to an audience, using both discovered archives and unpublished works. Pippin's story is both a story of art and life and Bernier does an in-depth investigation of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lorna Simpson Collages

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  Elizabeth Alexander's introduces Lorna Simpson's four collages, which centers around black hair. She defines black hair as thaumaturgic, meaning performing miracles, this assists with the reader's understanding of the works they are about to view.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Nimble Arc

  James Van Der Zee and Photography

  Boone, Emilie,

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  Emilie Boone brings up evidence that James Van Der Zee work exists at the crossroads of art and vernacular. The reader will learn more about Van Der Zee than just his already famous photography from the Harlem Renaissance period. Boone dives deeper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Augusta Savage

  Renaissance Woman

  Hayes, Jeffreen M.,

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  Augusta Savage was born after the reconstruction era and was an artist of the Harlem Renaissance, which was an artistic and cultural movement during the 20s and 30s. She made it her mission to advocate for the education of art in black communities…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jacob Lawrence

  the Migration Series

  Dickerman, Leah, 1964-

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  Lawrence grew up in Harlem and became a paid artist under the WPA Federal Arts Project, there he used his extensive education in black history to create his paintings. One of his most know series is The Migration of the Negro, which later was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hughie Lee-Smith

  Lee-Smith, Hughie,

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  Contributions from other artists and writers describe what they have taken from Lee-Smith's work and how it contributes to the larger picture of Black Americans and Hughie mixed racial background. In chronological order we get both Lee-Smith's works…Read moreRead more of this annotation