Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum by Bridget R. Cooks

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum

Bridget R. Cooks

240 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction art historical race informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1927, the Chicago Art Institute presented the first major museum exhibition of art by African Americans. Designed to demonstrate the artists’ abilities and to promote racial equality, the exhibition also revealed the art world’s anxieties about...

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