50-01 The Harlem Renaissance

This talk was recorded to coincide with 'The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism', an exhibition at the Met, New York between February and July 28, 2024.
Between the 1910s and 1970s the Great Migration took place. Roughly six million Black Americans moved from the Southern states to Northern, Midwestern and Western states. They migrated to escape from violence, racism, Jim Crow laws, indentured labour, the lack of social and economic opportunities and widespread lynchings.
Many settled in Harlem and over the years a remarkable rebirth of all forms of culture took place including music, literature, poetry, the visual arts, religion, philosophy, fashion and photography; it was known as the Harlem Renaissance. This talk is about the visual arts of that period.
The artists mentioned are Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, James Van Der Zee, Laura Wheeler Waring, Aaron Douglas, Archibald John Motley Jr., Augusta Savage, Hale Woodruff, Loïs Mailou Jones, Charles Alston and Jacob Lawrence.
The PDF notes of the talk are at www.shafe.co.uk/wp-content/up...

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Excellent video on Amazing African American Artist and their powerful contribution to depict their truth, vitality, and victorious spirit through all circumstances, thank you for sharing and educating us, I loved all the artists, and thank you for also including African American Female Artists too, just wonderful and inspirational!!

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Interesting choice of artists.
The Met exhibition is brilliant...