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Book Description
This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Black Romantic held April 23 - June 23, 2002 at the Studio Museum in
Harlem. In the catalogue Director Lowery Stokes Sims says the show is organized around: "elements of desire, dreams, determination, and romance particular to the black experience present a viewpoint that is oppositional to
modernist conceptualizations of blackness flavored by exogenous exoticism, stereotype, caricature, and even abstractionist manipulation."
The show presents figurative painting and sculpture by little-known African
American artists--little-known, at least, to most contemporary-art audiences. Widely collected by African Americans, the works, selected from an open call for submissions, are populist, celebratory, even nostalgic narratives
whose MO is to counter mainstream (white) media-generated imagery.
Thelma Golden, the museum's deputy director of exhibitions, is known for staging daring, provocative and unique shows (Black Male at the Whitney and
Freestyle at the Studio Museum), and with Black Romantic, once again, she introduces an intriguing take on the African-American experience to the mainstream.
The catalogue offers a view of a collection of creatively,
beautiful and individually produced images steeped in black culture, emotion and imagination.
Product Details
Softcover:
124 pages
Publisher: Studio Museum in Harlem (2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0942949234
ISBN-13: 978-0942949230
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