A Gallery of Harlem Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Gallery of Harlem Portraits write by Melvin B. Tolson. This book was released on 2013-10-10. A Gallery of Harlem Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight into how Tolson's literary picture of Harlem evolved. Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms. Robert M. Farnsworth's afterword elucidates these and other literary influences. Tolson eventually attempted to incorporate the technical achievements of T.S. Eliot and the New Criticism into a complex modern poetry which would accurately represent the extraordinary tensions, paradoxes, and sophistication, both highbrow and lowbrow, of modern Harlem. As a consequence his position in literary history is problematical. The publication of this earliest of his manuscripts will help clarify Tolson's achievement and surprise many of his readers with its readily accessible, warmly human poetic portraiture.
Harlem Street Portraits
Harlem Street Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harlem Street Portraits write by . This book was released on 2013. Harlem Street Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the humanity and spirit of the people of Harlem in 166 beautiful black and white photographs taken over 23 years, from 1990 to 2013. The images are mostly close-up portraits that reveal the friendliness and warmth of this city's inhabitants, the vibrant and bustling vitality of the area, and the changing nature of the neighborhood. What may at first appear to be a casual encounter becomes a personal, intimate record, a meaningful collaboration between photographer and subject. With a population of nearly half a million people, Harlem is America's most celebrated African-American neighborhood. Its rich past and historical importance have made a unique contribution to our national popular culture. Stein's photographs capture and celebrate the Harlem spirit.
Portraiture & the Harlem Renaissance
Portraiture & the Harlem Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraiture & the Harlem Renaissance write by James Latimer Allen. This book was released on 1999. Portraiture & the Harlem Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Harlem Heroes
Harlem Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harlem Heroes write by Carl Van Vechten. This book was released on 2016-11. Harlem Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Alice Neel: Uptown
Alice Neel: Uptown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alice Neel: Uptown write by Hilton Als. This book was released on 2017-05-23. Alice Neel: Uptown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Known for her portraits of family, friends, writers, poets, artists, students, singers, salesmen, activists, and more, Alice Neel created forthright, intimate, and, at times, humorous paintings that quietly engaged with political and social issues. In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time. Highlighting the innate diversity of Neel’s approach, the selection looks at those whose portraits are often left out of the art-historical canon and how this extraordinary painter captured them; “what fascinated her was the breadth of humanity that she encountered,” Als writes. The publication, which opens with a foreword by Jeremy Lewison, advisor to The Estate of Alice Neel, explores Neel’s interest in the diversity of uptown New York and the variety of people amongst whom she lived. This group of portraits includes well-known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel. In short and illuminating texts on specific works written in his characteristic narrative style, Als writes about the history of each sitter and offers insights into Neel and her work, while adding his own perspective. A contemporary and personal approach to the artist’s oeuvre, Als’s project is “an attempt to honor not only what Neel saw, but the generosity of her seeing.” This catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2017 exhibitions of Neel’s paintings and drawings at David Zwirner, New York, and Victoria Miro, London.
