Henry Ossawa Tanner: Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy (Routledge Research in Art and Race)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138241946 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the former program head and has published recently in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, American Art, and the Journal of Black Masculinity. Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. . is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
About the AuthorNaurice Frank Woods, Jr. . He is the former program head and has published recently in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, American Art, and the Journal of Black Masculinity. is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
In addition, Tanner achieved national recognition when the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1991 and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012 celebrated him with major retrospectives. By careful examination on multiple levels previously not detailed, this book adds greatly to existing Tanner scholarship and provides readers with a more complete, richly deserved portrait of this preeminent American master.. While Tanner lived a relatively simple life where his faith and family dictated many of the choices he made daily, his emergence as a prominent black artist in the late nineteenth century often thrust him openly into coping with the social complexities inherent with America’s great racial divide. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. In order to fully appreciate how he negotiated prevailing prejudices to find success, this book places him in the context of a uniquely talented black man experiencing the demands and rewards of nineteenth-century high art and culture. The latter exhibition brought in a record number of viewers. In