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It Was Clear, I Was Not Manet's Type

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Description: It Was Clear, I Was Not Manet's Type
TitleIt Was Clear, I Was Not Manet's Type
Creator nameWeems, Carrie Mae
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1997
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsDigital print
Dimensions40 x 20 cm
LocationUnknown
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsWomen, Black, in artSelf-portraits, AmericanBedroomsAfrican American women artistsPhotography, ArtisticAfrican American art--20th century
StatusOne of a series of five digital prints
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Chapter 3. A Reimagined Legacy: The Black Female Figure from Bearden to Now
Denise Murrell
Description: Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
~African American artist Romare Bearden (1911–1988) sought to reimagine modernist aesthetics for the black female figure in a way that centered...
Author
Denise Murrell
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Yale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.147-175
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00239.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21019&redirecttoanchor=29599
Chapter subject tags:Women, Black, in artCollageHarlem RenaissanceAfrican American women in popular cultureWomen artists, BlackManet, Édouard, 1832-1883Artists' models, Black
6. Contemporary Photography: [Re]presenting Art History
Deborah Willis
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists
Contemporary photographers, many of them engaging storytellers and astute historians, have worked on the intersection of the private and public in art. The photographers discussed in this essay use appropriation, multiple printing, straight images, and screen-based images to make compelling statements about modern culture, identity, branding, beauty, gender, family, race, history, and...
Author
Deborah Willis
PublisherHarvard University Press
Copyright© 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.199-224
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.010
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17735&redirecttoanchor=29599
Chapter subject tags:Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-Simpson, Lorna, 1960-Photography--21st centuryCampos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-Women artists, Black--21st centuryPhotographers, Black--21st centuryBlack people--Race identityGender identity in art

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https://www.moma.org/collection/works/45579
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