Art, Education, and African-American Culture (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
474
Utgivningsdatum
2003-11-01
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illustrated ed
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Transaction Publishers
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Illustrations
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Illustrations
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235 x 167 x 36 mm
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799 g
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1
ISBN
9780765802149

Art, Education, and African-American Culture

Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy

av Mary Ann Meyers
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-11-01
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A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings. Less well known is the fact that Barnes attributed his passion for collecting art to his youthful experience of African-American culture, especially music. Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic and innovative figure and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African American contributions to the American aesthetic tradition. 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.
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"This illumination of the character of Barnes, whose collection of Impressionist paintings is currently the focus of a lengthy legal struggle, helps us understand the significance of that outcome for all concerned about art's history. Recommended." "--Choice" "Meyers's compelling and cogent analysis of the back story of the Barnes Foundation shines a bright light on the long-running debate over the proper place for one of the world's most distinguished art collections..Well written and provocative, [it] is a must read for anyone who would understand the present controversy--a work of importance." "--"Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania "Meyers' biography [is] the most complete, measured and scholarly portrait of Barnes to date." "--The Pennsylvania Gazette" "Mary Ann Meyers uses a journalist's eye, and a novelist's timing in skillfully weaving the sociological, artistic, political, societal and philosophical ingredients that comprise the saga of the Barnes Foundation. Dr. Meyers is exemplary in her scholarship and even-handedness in telling a story that relentlessly offers the temptation to take sides."" " "--"Frederick S. Osborne, President, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts "This illumination of the character of Barnes, whose collection of Impressionist paintings is currently the focus of a lengthy legal struggle, helps us understand the significance of that outcome for all concerned about art's history. Recommended." --Choice "Meyers's compelling and cogent analysis of the back story of the Barnes Foundation shines a bright light on the long-running debate over the proper place for one of the world's most distinguished art collections..Well written and provocative, [it] is a must read for anyone who would understand the present controversy--a work of importance." --Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania "Meyers' biography [is] the most complete, measured and scholarly portrait of Barnes to date." --The Pennsylvania Gazette "Mary Ann Meyers uses a journalist's eye, and a novelist's timing in skillfully weaving the sociological, artistic, political, societal and philosophical ingredients that comprise the saga of the Barnes Foundation. Dr. Meyers is exemplary in her scholarship and even-handedness in telling a story that relentlessly offers the temptation to take sides." --Frederick S. Osborne, President, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts "The author combines a researcher's patience, a journalist's eye, and a novelist's timing in skillfully weaving the sociological, artistic, political, societal, and philosophical ingredients that comprise the story of the Barnes Foundation." --SchoolArts "This illumination of the character of Barnes, whose collection of Impressionist paintings is currently the focus of a lengthy legal struggle, helps us understand the significance of that outcome for all concerned about art's history. Recommended." --Choice "Meyers's compelling and cogent analysis of the back story of the Barnes Foundation shines a bright light on the long-running debate over the proper place for one of the world's most distinguished art collections..Well written and provocative, [it] is a must read for anyone who would understand the present controversy--a work of importance." --Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania "Meyers' biography [is] the most complete, measured and scholarly portrait of Barnes to date." --The Pennsylvania Gazette "Mary Ann Meyers uses a journalist's eye, and a novelist's timing in skillfully weaving the sociological, artistic, political, societal and p

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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

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