{"product_id":"i-too-sing-america-the-harlem-renaissance-at-100-hardcover","title":"I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWil Haygood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarole Genshaft\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eAnastasia Kinigopoulo\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History, \u003ci\u003eI Too Sing America \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a major survey on the visual art and material culture of the groundbreaking movement one hundred years after the Harlem Renaissance emerged as a creative force at the close of World War I.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt illuminates multiple facets of the era--the lives of its people, the art, the literature, the music, and the social history--through paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, and contemporary documents and ephemera. The lushly illustrated chronicle includes work by cherished artists such as Romare Bearden, Allan Rohan Crite, Palmer Hayden, William Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, and James Van Der Zee.\u003cbr\u003eThe project is the culmination of decades of reflection, research, and scholarship by Wil Haygood, acclaimed biographer and preeminent historian on Harlem and its cultural roots. In thematic chapters, the author captures the range and breadth of the Harlem Reniassance, a sweeping movement which saw an astonishing array of black writers and artists and musicians gather over a period of a few intense years, expanding far beyond its roots in Harlem to unleashing a myriad of talents upon the nation. The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWil Haygood\u003c\/b\u003e, guest curator for the Columbus Museum of Art's \u003ci\u003eI Too Sing America: Harlem Renaissance at 100\u003c\/i\u003e, is a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Haygood has written 4 biographies of major Harlem figures who were all touched by the Harlem Renaissance. His K\u003ci\u003eing of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. \u003ci\u003eIn Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Richard Wright-Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award, the Deems Taylor Biography Award, and the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the ALA His \u003ci\u003eSweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e, was a PEN\/ESPN Book Award Finalist.\u003ci\u003e Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e received the Scribes Book Award, the Ohioana Book Award, and the Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the ALA.\u003cbr\u003eAt the Columbus Museum of Art, \u003cb\u003eCarole Genshaf\u003c\/b\u003et is Curator at Large, \u003cb\u003e Anastasia Kinigopoulo\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Curator, \u003cb\u003eNannette V. Maciejunes\u003c\/b\u003e is the Executive Director, \u003cb\u003eDrew Sawyer \u003c\/b\u003eis Head of Exhibitions and William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 11 x 8.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757966721312,"sku":"9780847863129","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b8ad3410777ec98ce81d2b8a2adbd42f.webp?v=1780115745","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/i-too-sing-america-the-harlem-renaissance-at-100-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}