Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today

Posing modernity : the black model from Manet and Matisse to today /

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"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 tow...

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Author / Contributor: Murrell, Denise (Author)
Imprint: New Haven : New York : Yale University Press ; in association with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York, [2018]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Artists' models > Black people > Exhibitions.
African American models > Exhibitions.
Artists and models in art.
Black people > France > Paris.
Harlem Renaissance.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the gift of Olympia
  • Prologue : Manet's Laure and the histories of art
  • Olympia in context : Manet, the Impressionists, and Black Paris
  • Affinities and interface : modern portraits of Black women in the art of Matisse and the Harlem Renaissance
  • A reimagined legacy : the Black female figure from Bearden to now
  • Profiles of three models.

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