Art, Education, and African-American Culture : Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy

ISBN-13: 9781412805636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 482 str.

Mary Ann Meyers

Opis

A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings. Less well known is the fact that Barnes attributed his passion for collecting art to his youthful experience of African-American culture, especially music. Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic and innovative fi gure and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African-American contributions to the American aesthetic tradition.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Early Years
2. Experiments in Education and Living
3. The Collector and His Tutors
4 Mr. Dewey
5. "The Temple" in Merion
6. The Art in Painting
7. The Art of Polemics
8. A New Valuation of Black Art
9. Muse, Models, Museum
10. The Dance
11. Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
12. Students and Teachers
13. Penn Again
14. The Last Alliance
15. Postmortem
16. Lincoln
17. Neighbors
18. Epilogue
Notes
Index

O autorze

Mary Ann Meyers