| FB-51678-05 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Mary Ann Calo | American Art Criticism and the African American Artist | 7/1/2005 - 12/31/2005 | $24,000.00 | Mary Ann | | Calo | | | | Colgate University | Hamilton | NY | 13346-1338 | USA | 2004 | Arts, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 24000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
This project is concerned with the critical reception of African American artists who emerged in the wake of the Harlem Renaissance. In the interwar decades a set of critical ideals rooted in the discourse of racial difference functioned to isolate black artistic production from mainstream cultural practice. This was a lost opportunity for American art critics who failed to recognize the extent to which African American artists, through their work and their rhetoric, sought to participate in a collective project of national self-definition. The legacy of this era has been the persistent inability to dislodge the preeminence of race as a constant in the critical assessment of African American artists. |