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Author Francis, Jacqueline, author.

Title Making race : modernism and "racial art" in America / Jacqueline Francis
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction -- The meanings of modernism -- Making race in American religious painting -- Type/face/mask: racial portraiture -- The race of landscape -- Conclusion
Summary "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 work of these three artists in order to consider their understanding of the category and their stylistic responses to the expectations created by it, in the process revealing much about the nature of modernist art practices. Most American audiences in the interwar period disapproved of figural abstraction and held modernist painting in contempt, yet the critics who first expressed appreciation for Johnson, Kuniyoshi, and Weber praised their bright palettes and energetic pictures--and expected to find the residue of the minority artist's heritage in the work itself. Francis explores the flowering of racial art rhetoric in criticism and history published in the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes its underlying presence in contemporary discussions of artists of color. Making Race is a history of a past phenomenon which has ramifications for the present. Jacqueline Francis is a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts"--Provided by publisher
"A comparative history of New York expressionist painters Malvin Gray Johnson (1896-1934), Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893-1953), and Max Weber (1881-1961)"--Provided by publisher
Notes "A McLellan book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Johnson, Malvin Gray, 1896-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation
Weber, Max, 1881-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Weber, Max, 1881-1961 -- Critique et interpretation
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 -- Critique et interpretation
Johnson, Malvin Gray, 1896-1934 -- Critique et interpretation
Johnson, Malvin Gray, 1896-1934 fast
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953 fast
Weber, Max, 1881-1961 fast
Johnson, Malvin Gray 1896-1934 gnd
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo 1889-1953 gnd
Weber, Max 1881-1961 gnd
Weber, Max, (1881-1961) -- Critique et interpretation. ram
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, (1889-1953) -- Critique et interpretation. ram
Metropolitan Museum of Art gnd
Subject Modernism (Art) -- United States
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Art criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Art and race.
ART -- American -- African American.
ART -- American -- Asian American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
ART -- History -- General.
Art and race
Art criticism
Modernism (Art)
Painting, American
Künstler
Ethnizität Motiv
Malerei
Minderheit
Critique d'art -- États-Unis -- 20e siecle.
Peinture americaine -- 20e siecle.
Modernisme (art) -- États-Unis.
Amerikansk målarkonst.
Modernism (konst)
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780295804330
0295804335