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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464150503321

Autore

Cooks Bridget R. <1972->

Titolo

Exhibiting blackness : African Americans and the American art museum / / Bridget R. Cooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61376-006-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Soggetti

Art museums - Social aspects - United States

African American art - Exhibitions - Social aspects

Art and society - United States

Art and race

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.