Week 7, Module 8: Representing Race: Black/African American U.S. Male Artists
AH 270: Art/Identity/Politics
Week 7, Module 8: Representing Race: Black/African American U.S. Male Artists
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor (1894), Banjo Lesson (1893)
Jacob Lawrence, Harriet Tubman series (1960), Negro Migration series (1941)
–The Harlem Renaissance, (“New Negro Movement,” Alain Locke)
Romare Bearden, Conjur Woman (1964), The Dove (1964), The Prevalence of Ritual:
Baptism (1964)
–Léopold Senghor, “Negritude”
–Spiral Group
–collage, photomontage
John Biggers, Shotguns: 7th Ward, Houston (1987)
David Hammons, Injustice Case (1970), Spade with Chains (1973), African American
Flag (1990), Higher Goals (1986), Bling Bling Basket (1994), American Street, House of the Future (1991)
–Malcolm X
–Bobby Seale (“Chicago 8”), Black Panther Party
–indexical sign (existential relationship to its referent)
Glen Ligon, Two White/Two Black (1992), White #1 (1995), Profile Series (1990-91)
–Franzt Fanon, James Baldwin
–“legibility of race”
–Conceptual art
Robert Colescott, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware—Page from
American History (1975), Eat Dem Taters (1975)
–Emanuel Leutze, Vincent Van Gogh
Yinka Shonibare, Nuclear Family (1999), Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 19:00hrs (1998)
–Dutch wax-print textiles
Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005), Femme Piquee par un
Serpent (2013)
1870 Black’s enfranchised
1910s-1930s Harlem Renaissance, New Negro Culture
1947 Jackie Robinson
1948 De-segregation of armed services
1954 Brown v. Board of Education
1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 54-week bus boycott (Rosa Parks) in Alabama
1957 Federal Troops sent to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation
1960 Civil Rights Act—beginning of numerous Black protests around the nation
1963 March on Washington—Nelson Mandela imprisoned, South Africa
1965 Watts riots—Malcolm X assassinated
1966 Black Panthers formed, Freedom march in Mississippi, NOW founded
1967 Thurgood Marshall appointed
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
1969 Shirley Chisholm, 1st Black female Representative, WAR founded
2008 Barack Obama elected President
2014 Blacklivesmatter