Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today / Denise Murrell.
2018
N8217.A67 M87 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today / Denise Murrell.
Author
Murrell, Denise, author.
ISBN
9780300229066 (hardcover)
0300229062 (hardcover)
0300229062 (hardcover)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Call Number
N8217.A67 M87 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
704.9/424
709.4
709.4
Summary
This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic "other." Denise Murrell explores the little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet's reconsideration of the black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in dialogue with the urbane "New Negro" portraiture style with which Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a look at how Manet's and Matisse's depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimâe Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its multiple voices.
Note
Exhibition: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, USA (October 24, 2018-February 10, 2019); Musâee d'Orsay (March 26-July 14, 2019).
This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic "other." Denise Murrell explores the little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet's reconsideration of the black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in dialogue with the urbane "New Negro" portraiture style with which Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a look at how Manet's and Matisse's depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimâe Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its multiple voices.
This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Edouard Manet's Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic "other." Denise Murrell explores the little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet's reconsideration of the black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in dialogue with the urbane "New Negro" portraiture style with which Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a look at how Manet's and Matisse's depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimâe Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its multiple voices.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Corporate Author
Wallach Art Gallery, organizer, host institution, publisher.
Musée d'Orsay, host institution.
Musée d'Orsay, host institution.
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Table of Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: The Gift of Olympia
Prologue: Manet's Laure and the Histories of Art
Chapter 1: Olympia in Context: Manet, the Impressionists, and Black Paris
Chapter 2: Affinities and Interface: Modern Portraits of Black Women in the Art of Matisse and the Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 3: A Reimagined Legacy: The Black Female Figure from Bearden to Now
Profiles of Three Models
Map
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits
Foreword
Introduction: The Gift of Olympia
Prologue: Manet's Laure and the Histories of Art
Chapter 1: Olympia in Context: Manet, the Impressionists, and Black Paris
Chapter 2: Affinities and Interface: Modern Portraits of Black Women in the Art of Matisse and the Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 3: A Reimagined Legacy: The Black Female Figure from Bearden to Now
Profiles of Three Models
Map
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits