1st Edition
Blackness, Symbolism, and American Modernism Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
By Lori Nel Johnson
Copyright 2025
210 Pages
15 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
15 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
15 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this book, Lori Nel Johnson examines the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), and F. Holland Day (1864-1933) in relation to the development of modernism during the turn of the century, and the official narratives surrounding this movement.
While Tanner and Fuller have been consistently linked in the history of American Art, the Pictorialist photographer... Read more
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
Biography
Lori Nel Johnson is Associate Professor of Art History at Morgan State University.
