Art, Education, and African-American Culture
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-0563-6 (ISBN)
Mary Ann Meyers examines Barnes's background and career and the development and evolution of his enthusiasm for collecting pictures and sculpture. She shows how Barnes's commitment to breaking down invidious distinctions and his use of the uniquely arranged works in his collection as textbooks for his school, created a milieu where masterpieces of European and American late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century painting, along with rare and beautiful African art objects, became a backdrop for endless feuding. A gallery requiring renovation, a trust prohibiting the loan or sale of a single picture, and the efforts of Lincoln University, known as the "black Princeton," to balance conflicting needs and obligations all conspired to create a legacy of legal entanglement and disputes that remain in contention.
This volume is neither an idealized account of a quixotic do-gooder nor is it a critique of a crank. While fully documenting Barnes's notorious eccentricities along with the clashing interests of the main personalities associated with his Foundation, Meyers eschews moral posturing in favor of a rich mosaic of peoples and institutions that illustrate many of the larger themes of American culture in general and African-American culture in particular.
Mary Ann Meyers is secretary and a director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the senior fellow at the John Templeton Foundation. She is the author of A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in Community Construction and a coauthor of Religion in American Life and Coping with Serious Illness.
Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Early Years
2. Experiments in Education and Living
3. The Collector and His Tutors
4 Mr. Dewey
5. "The Temple" in Merion
6. The Art in Painting
7. The Art of Polemics
8. A New Valuation of Black Art
9. Muse, Models, Museum
10. The Dance
11. Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
12. Students and Teachers
13. Penn Again
14. The Last Alliance
15. Postmortem
16. Lincoln
17. Neighbors
18. Epilogue
Notes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2006 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 680 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4128-0563-5 / 1412805635 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4128-0563-6 / 9781412805636 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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