Making Race Modernism and Racial Art in America

Name: Making Race Modernism and Racial Art in America
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ISBN: 9780295991450

ISBN-10: 0295991453

ISBN-13: 9780295991450

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jacqueline Francis

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Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial art" in the interwar years of the twentieth century. The term was widely used by critics and the public at the time, and was an unexamined, unquestioned category for the work of non-whites (such as Johnson, an African American), non-Westerners (such as Kuniyoshi, a Japanese-born American), and ethnicized non-Christians (such as Weber, a Russian-born Jewish American). The discourse on racial art is a troubling chapter in the history of early American modernism that has not, until now, been sufficiently documented. Jacqueline Francis juxtaposes the…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 12/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English