9/28/08
Aaron Douglas Paintings
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Aaron Douglas,
Harlem Renaissance
I am a writer and a professor of English at the City College of New York, and the CUNY Graduate Center. My books include Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1979), Invisibility Blues (1990), Black Popular Culture (1992), and Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2005). I write cultural criticism frequently and am currently working on a project on creativity and feminism among the women in my family, some of which is posted on the Soul Pictures blog.
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Aron Douglass a well known personality from Harlem Renaissance and a famous painter. Douglas was known for his semi-abstract, hard-edged style which synthesized aspects of modern European, ancient Egyptian, and West African art, and eventually brought him to the attention of W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, who were pressing for young African American artists to evoke their African heritage and African American folk culture in their art. He wanted people to understand African-American spiritual identity, and, in some ways, he may have succeeded, and Douglas was also famous as the "Father of African American art."
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