| FA-251761-17 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Anne Monahan | Horace Pippin (1888-1946): Art, Race, and the Construction of American Modernism | 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2017 | $50,400.00 | Anne | | Monahan | | | | | New York | NY | 10025-5390 | USA | 2016 | American Studies | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 | Preparation of a book-length study on the American painter Horace Pippin (1888-1946).
Horace Pippin (1888–1946), a self-taught painter and disabled World War I veteran, was arguably the most prominent African American artist of the 1940s. My book, When Does a Primitive Cease to Be a Primitive: Horace Pippin’s Challenge to Art Criticism, examines his complicated position at the intersection of contemporary, African American, and self-taught art of his day, revealing unrecognized aspects of his criticality, agency, authorship, and patronage, and the dynamics of canon and racial formation operative in his success. Organized as a set of microhistorical case studies, the project sheds new light on a transitional moment in American modernism and the diverse constituencies involved in its construction and engages the fields of critical race studies, memory studies, literary criticism, sociology, and non-representational theory. |