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Black Is, Black Ain't
by Huey Copeland, Darby English, Greg Foster-Rice, Amy M. Mooney, Kimberly N. Pinder, Krista Thompson, Hamza Walker, Kenneth W. Warren, Yes Illustrated
Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 2013 by Society
ISBN-13: 978-0-941548-60-1, ISBN: 0-941548-60-0

"Taking its title from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't (April 20 – June 8, 2008) explored a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained. Curated by the Renaissance Society's Associate Curator and Education Director Hamza Walker, the exhibition brought together works by twenty-seven black and non- ..."






Archibald J. Motley Jr.(1st Edition)
(The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, V. 4)
by Amy M. Mooney, Archibald John Motley
Hardcover, 116 Pages, Published 2004 by Pomegranate
ISBN-13: 978-0-7649-2886-4, ISBN: 0-7649-2886-4

"Archibald J. Motley Jr. (1891–1981) devoted his prodigious and critically acclaimed career to portraying African Americans seriously rather than as caricatures, hoping that honest African American art would become accepted and a subsequent synthesis would occur, creating an American art form appreciated by all, regardless of racial identity. Drawing on the artist’s paintings and eloquent writings; recently unearthed taped interviews; u ..."






The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art(2nd Edition)
by Andrea D. Barnwell, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Kirsten Buick, Walter O. Evans, Amy M. Mooney, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee
Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 2000 by Univ Of Washington Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97920-5, ISBN: 0-295-97920-8

"Dr. Walter O. Evans first purchased a portfolio of prints by Jacob Lawrence in the late 1970s. Now, more than 20 years after acquiring his first piece of fine art, Dr. Evans owns a phenomenal collection that ranges from choice works by the expatriate artists Mary Edmonia Lewis and Henry Ossawa Tanner to noteworthy pieces by the celebrated innovators Charles White, Richard Hunt, and Archibald J. Motley, Jr. "The Evans Collection" also co ..."






Alma W. Thomas
Everything Is Beautiful (Hardback)
by Jonathan Frederick Walz, Seth Feman
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2021 by Yale University Press 2021-07-13
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-25893-6, ISBN: 0-300-25893-3






Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance(First Edition)
New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 (New Black Studies Series)
by Richard A. Courage, Christopher Robert Reed
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-04305-5, ISBN: 0-252-04305-7






here / still / now(1st Edition)
by Paul D'amato, Paul / Bey D'amato, Amy M. Mooney, Camara Dia Holloway, Camara Dia, Kehrer Verlag
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Kehrer Verlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-86828-782-0, ISBN: 3-86828-782-5

"The west side of Chicago is not the poorest, the oldest, the largest, or the most African American of African American communities in the United States--it is similar to every other swath of poverty in every single city. We are led to believe that these communities are in crisis when something occurs that lands them on the front page. The real crisis, however, is ongoing and it's one of acceptance of the conditions of poverty, day in an ..."






Archibald Motley Jazz Age Modernist(1st Edition)
by Aishmael Reed, Davarian L. Baldwin, Olivier Meslay, David C. Driskell, Amy Mooney, Richard J. Powell, Duke University Press
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-938989-39-4, ISBN: 0-938989-39-1

"Archibald Motley (1891-1981) was one of the most important figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance and is best known as both a master colorist and a radical interpreter of urban culture. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is the first full-scale survey of his paintings in two decades. The exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to carefully examine Motley's dynamic depictions of modern life in his home town, Chicago, as ..."

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