Negro Art: Past and Present

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"Negro Art: Past and Present" is an influential essay by philosopher and critic Alain Locke that examines the history, aesthetics, and cultural significance of African and African American art within the broader context of modern art.

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instanceOf art criticism essay
essay
literary work
advocates integration of Negro art into mainstream art history
recognition of African art as fine art
associatedWithMovement Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
surface form: New Negro Movement
author Alain Locke
contributesTo African American art history discourse
Black culture
surface form: Black aesthetics

philosophy of art
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques Eurocentric standards in art criticism
primitivist views of African art
examines African American artistic traditions
African artistic traditions
relationship between art and racial identity
role of Black artists in modern art
stereotypes about Negro art
focusesOn aesthetic evaluation of Black art
cultural significance of Black art
history of African American art
history of African art
relationship between African art and modernism
genre aesthetic theory
art criticism
hasPerspective Afrocentric view of art history
modernist aesthetics
influencedBy The New Negro (anthology)
surface form: New Negro ideology

philosophy of cultural pluralism
intendedAudience art critics
general educated public
scholars of African American culture
language English
mainSubject African American art
African art
Harlem Renaissance
surface form: Negro Renaissance

aesthetics
cultural history
modern art
race and art
notableFor defense of the artistic value of Negro art
historical survey of Black artistic production
linking African art to modern art movements
relatedPerson Langston Hughes
W. E. B. Du Bois
relatedWork The New Negro (anthology)
surface form: The New Negro
timePeriodDiscussed early 20th century modern art
precolonial African history
slavery era in the Americas

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Alain Locke notableWork Negro Art: Past and Present