"In New York at the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer and modern-art impresario Alfred Stieglitz and his allies embraced a racialized aesthetic discourse in their expressions of identity. Creative composites examines the often neglected role played by immigrant art…
Examines how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. This book documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.
This thesis examines the collage works of modernist artist Romare Bearden and contemporary, postmodern artist Wangechi Mutu in order to examine a historical shift occurring between the mid-1960s and the early 2000s-2010s. Both artists are concerned with recontextualizing represe…
"As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entan…
"How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion--the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity. The history of art, argues Éric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. Viewed from the nineteenth century, the Germanic-led invas…
"The history of art, argues Éric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. Viewed from the nineteenth century, the Germanic-led invasions of the Roman Empire in the fifth century became the gateway to modernity, seen not as a catastrophe but as a release…
"Pop Art and Beyond foregrounds the roles of gender, race, and class in encounters with Pop during the Long Sixties. Exploring the work of over 20 artists from 5 continents, it offers new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity. Featuring an array of rigorous chapters written by bot…