Book

African modernism in America / edited by Perrin M. Lathrop.

New York, NY : American Federation of Arts, 2022.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, portraits ; 28 cm

Between 1947 and 1967, institutions such as the Harmon Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and historically Black colleges and universities collected and exhibited works by many of the most important African artists of the mid-twentieth century, including Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Gerard Sekoto (South Africa), Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). The inventive and irrefutably contemporary nature of these artists' paintings, sculptures, and works on paper defied typical Western narratives about African art being isolated in a "primitive" past. Providing an unprecedented examination of the complex connections between modern African artists and American patrons amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War, this fascinating volume reveals a transcontinental network of artists, curators, and scholars that challenged assumptions about African art in the United States and encouraged American engagement with African artists as contemporaries.

1900-1999

Artists -- Africa -- Exhibitions.

African American artists -- Exhibitions.

Africans -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Africans in art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Modernism (Art) -- Africa -- Exhibitions.

Modernism (Art) -- African influences -- Exhibitions.

Africans in art

African American artists

Modernism (Art) -- African influences

Artists

Modernism (Art)

Africans -- Social life and customs

Africa

United States

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Lathrop, Perrin M., editor.

Okeke-Agulu, Chika, writer of afterword.

Fisk University. University Galleries, host institution.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, host institution.

Phillips Collection, host institution.

Taft Museum of Art, host institution.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee, October 7, 2022-February 11, 2023; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, March 10-August 6, 2023; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., October 7, 2023-January 7, 2024; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 10-May 19, 2024.

Artists include: Jacob Afolabi ; Justus Dojumo Akeredolu ; Jimo Akolo ; John Biggers ; Skunder Boghossian ; René Bokoko ; Buluma Mordecai Ochungo ; Miranda Burney-Nicol (Olayinka) ; Peter Clarke ; Emmanuel Owusu Dartey ; Aaron Douglas ; David C. Driskell ; Afi Ekong ; Ibrahim El-Salahi ; Ben Enwonwu ; Làmídì Ọlonàdé Fákẹ́yẹ ; Elton C. Fax ; Yusuf Grillo ; William H. Johnson ; Mohammad Omer Khalil ; Ladi Kwali ; Grace Salome Kwami ; Akinọla Laṣekan ; Jacob Lawrence ; Jean Nakadulu Luvwezo ; Manyolo Estella Betty ; Mohammed Melehi ; Thomas Mukarobgwa ; Pilipili Mulongoy ; Selby Mvusi ; Iba N'Diaye ; Malangatana Ngwenya ; Rekyaelimoo Njau ; D.L.K. Nnachy ; Sam Joseph Ntiro ; Demas Nwoko ; Rufus Ogundele ; Suzanna Ogunjami ; Simon Okeke ; Uche Okeke ; Bruce Onobrakpeya ; James A. Porter ; Gerard Sekoto ; George O. Talabi ; Papa Ibra Tall ; Mamo Tessema ; Etso Clara Ugbodaga-Ngu ; Solomon Irein Wangboje ; Viola Mariethia Wood.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.

Art from Africa of our time : African modernism in America, 1947-1967 / Perrin M. Lathrop -- Sam Joseph Nitro, Skunder Boghossian, and modern African art in turbulent times / Kate Cowcher -- Negro, mind : Jacob Lawrence processes the diaspora / Paul C. Taylor -- Ladi Kwali : Ceramics, art, and modernism between African and American, 1961-1972 / Ozioma Onuzulike -- African art at Fisk University : Charles S. Johnson, Aaron Douglas, and David C. Driskell / Nikoo Paydar -- Interview with David C. Driskell / Jamaal B. Sheats -- The politics of selection : Maria Magdalena Compos-Pons, Ndidi Dike, and Perrin M. Lathrop -- Artists -- Afterword: Modern art in the age of Pan-Africanism / Chika Okeke-Agula -- Exhibition checklist.

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