Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1628460334 ISBN 13: 9781628460339

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2014

Synopsis

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 this first book on the women artists of the Harlem Renaissance proclaim the legacy of Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Prophet, Lois Maillou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, and many other painters, sculptors, and printmakers.

In a time of more rigid gender roles, women artists faced the added struggle of raising families and attempting to gain support and encouragement from their often-reluctant spouses in order to pursue their art. They also confronted the challenge of convincing their fellow male artists that they, too, should be seen as important contributors to the artistic innovation of the era.

About this title

Book Description:

Essays that explore how a system of patronage and sexism marginalized some remarkable visual artists

About the Author:

Amy Helene Kirschke is professor and chair at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, in the Department of Art and Art History. She is author of Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance and Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, both published by University Press of Mississippi; author of Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, winner of the 2007 SECAC award for excellence in writing and research; and coeditor of Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the "Crisis," and American History.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628460334
• ISBN 13: 9781628460339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 251
• Editor: Kirschke Amy Helene