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  Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
  In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, prompting the philosopher and writer Alain Locke to dub him the 'father of Black American art.' Working from a politicized concept of personal identity and a utopian vision of the future, the artist made a lasting impact on American art history and on the nation's cultural heritage. Douglas's role, as well as that of the Harlem Renaissance in general, in the evolution of American modernism deserves close scholarly attention, which it finally receives in this beautifully illustrated book.
  
  
  The publication is edited by Susan Earle, Spencer Museum of Art curator of European and American Art, with essays by Renée Ater, assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, David C. Driskell, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Maryland and a practicing artist and scholar, Amy Helene Kirschke, associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Stephanie Fox Knappe, doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Kansas, Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, and Cheryl R. Ragar, visiting instructor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

  Price:	$45.00
  Pages:	251
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  Publisher:	Spencer Museum of Art with Yale University Press
  Publication Date:	2007
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