Black Orpheus - Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

The first book to feature Jacob Lawrence's Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa's place as a global center of modernist art and culture

About the author

Kimberli Gant is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum. She is formerly McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba is the Françoise Billon Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Summary

The first book to feature Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa’s place as a global center of modernist art and culture

Product details

• Authors: Kimberli Ezeluomba Gant
• Assisted by: Ndubuisi Ezeluomba (Editor), Kimberli Gant (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780300263176
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26317-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, Ethnic Studies, Africa, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), ART / African, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Art & design styles: from c 1960, African History, Black & Asian Studies, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, ART / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people