Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Woods, Naurice Frank
Titre(s) : Henry Ossawa Tanner [Texte électronique] : art, faith, race, and legacy / Naurice Frank Woods, Jr.
Publication : New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (280 pages) : 30 illustrations
Collection : Routledge research in art and race
Lien à la collection : Routledge research in art and race (Online)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Tanner, Henry Ossawa (1859-1937)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781315279473. - ISBN 1315279479. - ISBN 9781138241947 (erroné). - ISBN 1138241946
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45569152z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45569152
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue : Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro painter" ; Introduction : Creativity and
racism in the nineteenth century ; Of the father and of the son : the rise of Benjamin
and Henry Tanner ; Into the south and across the sea : Atlanta and Paris beckon
; The American interlude : race and religion on canvas ; Crossing over Jordan : salon
triumph and spiritual crisis ; A salon master in a modern century ; The Great War,
the new Negro, and the celestial city ; Epilogue : The redemption of memory.
