I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100

by Wil Haygood

Carole Genshaft, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, Nannette V. Maciejunes, and Drew Sawyer

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It 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. The 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.
  • ISBN10 0847863123
  • ISBN13 9780847863129
  • Publish Date 9 October 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rizzoli International Publications