Exhibiting Blackness

by Cooks, Bridget R.

• ISBN13: 9781558498754
• ISBN10: 1558498753
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-31
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

Examines the representation of African American culture in mainstream art museums from the 1920s to the 2000s

Author Biography

Bridget St. Cooks is associate professor of art studies, and visual studies at the University of California Irvine

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on Terminology	p. xv
Introduction: African Americans Enter the Art Museum	p. 1
Negro Art in the Modern Art Museum	p. 17
Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind, 1969	p. 53
Filling the Void: Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1976	p. 87
New York to L.A.: Black Male: Representations of Black Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, 1994-1995	p. 110
Back to the Future: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, 2002	p. 135
Conclusion: African Americans after the Art Museum	p. 155
Epilogue: Harlem on My Mind	p. 161
Notes	p. 165
Index	p. 193
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