Bibliograph

Archibald Motley, jazz age modernist, edited by Richard J. Powell

Type

Label

Archibald Motley, jazz age modernist, edited by Richard J. Powell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Archibald Motley

Nature of contents

catalogsbibliography

Oclc number

864788447

Responsibility statement

edited by Richard J. Powell

Sub title

jazz age modernist

Summary

Featuring more than 140 colour illustrations, this catalogue accompanies the first full-scale survey in 20 years of the work of Archibald John Motley, Jr. (1891-1981), a master colourist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Motley's brilliant yet idiosyncratic paintings - simultaneously expressionist and social realist - have captured worldwide attention with their rainbow-hued, syncopated compositions. The catalogue includes the artist's depictions of African American life in early-twentieth-century Chicago, as well as his portraits and archetypes, portrayals of African American life in Jazz Age Paris, and renderings of 1950s Mexico--, Source other than Library of Congress

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Sarah Schroth -- Curator's acknowledgments / Richard J. Powell -- Sky Diving / Ishmael Reed -- Face to face with Archibald J. Motley Jr. / David C. Driskell -- The portraits of Archibald Motley and the visualization of Black modern subjectivity / Amy M. Mooney -- "Midnight was like day": strolling through Archibald Motley's bronzeville / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Motley's Paris: missed opportunities / Olivier Meslay -- Becoming Motley, becoming modern / Richard J. Powell -- Artist chronology -- Exhibition checklist

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