Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Henry Ossawa Tanner - Jr. Woods  Naurice Frank

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-24194-7 (ISBN)
CHF 239,00 inkl. MwSt
  • Versand in 15-20 Tagen
  • Versandkostenfrei
  • Auch auf Rechnung
  • Artikel merken
This book examines the life and work of artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. He was one of the most celebrated American artists of his era, yet, largely because of his race, he quickly vanished from recorded accounts of the period in which he worked. This book helps restore his legacy.
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. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In fact, Tanner, in the spirit of political correctness and racial inclusiveness, has gained a prominent place in recent textbooks on mainstream American art and his painting, The Banjo Lesson (1893), has become an iconic symbol of black creativity. 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. The latter exhibition brought in a record number of viewers. 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. 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. 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.

Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the former program head and has published recently in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, American Art, and the Journal of Black Masculinity.

Prologue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro Painter"

Introduction: Creativity and Racism in the Nineteenth Century

1. Of the Father and of the Son: the Rise of Benjamin and Henry Tanner

2. Into the South and Across the Sea: Atlanta and Paris Beckon

3. The American Interlude: Race and Religion on Canvas

4. Crossing Over Jordan: Salon Triumph and Spiritual Crisis

5. A Salon Master in a Modern Century

6. The Great War, the New Negro, and the Celestial City

Epilogue: The Redemption of Memory

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Art and Race
Zusatzinfo 30 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 725 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-24194-6 / 1138241946
ISBN-13 978-1-138-24194-7 / 9781138241947
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Träume und Macht : eine Biografie

von Marita Krauss

Buch | Hardcover (2025)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 61,60