{"product_id":"alain-locke-and-the-visual-arts-9780300247268","title":"Alain Locke and the Visual Arts","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alain Locke (1885-1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong commitment to the visual arts. Offering an in-depth study of Locke's writings and art world interventions, Kobena Mercer focuses on the importance of cross-cultural entanglement. This distinctive approach reveals Locke's vision of modern art as a dynamic space where images and ideas generate new forms under the fluid conditions of diaspora. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Positioning the philosopher as an advocate for an Afromodern aesthetic that drew from both formal experiments in Europe and the iconic legacy of the African past, Mercer shows how Aaron Douglas, Loïs Mailou Jones, and other New Negro artists acknowledged the diaspora's rupture with the ancestral past as a prelude to the rebirth of identity. In his 1940 picture book, \u003ci\u003eThe Negro in Art, \u003c\/i\u003e Locke also explored the different ways black and white artists approached the black image. Mercer's reading highlights the global mobility of black images as they travel across national and ethnic frontiers. Finally, Mercer examines how Locke's investment in art was shaped by gay male aestheticism. Black male nudes, including works by Richmond Barthé and Carl Van Vechten, thus reveal the significance of queer practices in modernism's cross-cultural genesis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300247268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"Kobena Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42148904698037,"sku":"9780300247268","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6ef78386-6263-42f5-9d82-b48c625a55ae.jpg?v=1653486308","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alain-locke-and-the-visual-arts-9780300247268","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}