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Exhibiting blackness

Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-

Exhibiting blackness African Americans and the American art museum / [electronic resource] : Bridget R. Cooks. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xv, 205 p., [16] p. of plates :) ill. (some col.) ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-192) and index.

A note on terminology -- Introduction. African Americans enter the art museum -- Negro art in the modern art museum -- Black artists and activism : Harlem on my mind, 1969 -- Filling the void : two centuries of black American art, 1976 -- New York to L.A. : black male : representations of black masculinity in contemporary American art, 1994-1995 -- Back to the future : The quilts of Gee's Bend, 2002 -- Conclusion. African Americans after the art museum -- Epilogue.

9781613760062 161376006X




Art and race.
Art and society--United States.
African American art--Social aspects.--Exhibitions
Art museums--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

N510 / .C67 2011

704.03/96073