Blackness, Symbolism, and American Modernism - Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality

This book examines the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Meta Warrick Fuller, and F. Holland Day in relation to modernism during the turn of the century.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Good Shepherd: Symbolism, Mysticism, and Tanner's Spiritual Conversion 2. From Sculptor of Horrors to Race Artist: Meta Warrick Fuller's Silent Protest and the Language of Sexual and Racial Oppression 3. "A Summering Maker Place": F. Holland Day's Nubians and the Limits of Progressive Philanthropy Conclusion

About the author

Lori Nel Johnson is Associate Professor of Art History at Morgan State University.

Product details

• Authors: Lori Nel Johnson, Lori Nel (Morgan State University Johnson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032453019
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245301-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ethnic Studies, History, Sociology, Popular Culture, Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Black & Asian Studies, ART / American / African American & Black