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Artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance echoed American progressivism in its faith in democratic reform, in its belief in art and literature as agents of change, and in its almost uncritical belief in itself and its future.
Feb 12, 2024 · 1. Aaron Douglas. From The New York Public Library. A segment from a 1934 mural by Aaron Douglas titled, 'Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction.' Aaron Douglas witnessed...
While the Harlem Renaissance may be best known for its literary and performing arts—pioneering figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, and Ma Rainey may be familiar—sculptors, painters, and printmakers were key contributors to the first modern Afrocentric cultural movement and formed a black avant-garde in the visual...
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 999. The groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism explores the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life.
By Debra Kamin. by The New York Times. The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance. An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the...
Art terms. Harlem Renaissance. A period of African American literary, artistic, and intellectual activity centered in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, spanning from the 1920s to the mid-1930s.
Feb 27, 2018 · Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Romare Bearden grew up in Harlem, surrounded by the cultural explosion of the 1920s. During the 1930s he studied art, worked as a cartoonist, and ...
