Visualizing Haiti in U.s. Culture, 1910-1950

Zusatztext 'Lindsay J. Twa's Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture! 1910-1950 offers the most thorough examination yet written of Haiti's representation in visual media that circulated in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Twa's monograph dexterously spans many disciplines to survey cultural production as diverse as Aaron Douglas's illustration and painting! Katherine Dunham's choreography and dance! Alexander King's photojournalism and illustration! Paul Robeson's acting! Maya Deren's filmmaking! and William Edouard Scott's painting ...' CAA Reviews Informationen zum Autor Lindsay J. Twa is Associate Professor of Art and Director! Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana College! Sioux Falls! SD! USA. From the 1910s until the 1950s the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention of many U.S. literary and artistic luminaries, yet while significant studies have been published on Haiti's history, none analyze visual representations with any depth. Zusammenfassung From the 1910s until the 1950s the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention of many U.S. literary and artistic luminaries, yet while significant studies have been published on Haiti's history, none analyze visual representations with any depth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Prologue: thoughts of Haiti; Presenting the taming of Haiti: National Geographic magazine and the U.S. occupation; Illustrating The Emperor Jones; Imagining a black magic island; 'Creative ethnographers' document Haiti; Vernacularizing Haiti's revolutionary history; Marketing Haiti: tourism! the art market! and icons of Haiti; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lindsay J. Twa, LindsayJ. Twa, Twa Lindsay J.
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2014
• EAN: 9781409446729
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-4672-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, 20th Century, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / American / General, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960