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Exhibiting blackness : African Americans and the American art museum
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Exhibiting blackness : African Americans and the American art museum / Bridget R. Cooks.
ISBN
9781558498754 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558498753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xv, 205 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Variant and related titles
African Americans and the American art museum
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A note on terminology
Introduction. African Americans enter the art museum
Negro art in the modern art museum
Black artists and activism : Harlem on my mind, 1969
Filling the void : two centuries of black American art, 1976
New York to L.A. : black male : representations of black masculinity in contemporary American art, 1994-1995
Back to the future : The quilts of Gee's Bend, 2002
Conclusion. African Americans after the art museum
Epilogue.
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