Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

$50.00 at The Barnes Foundation.

A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of 1920s Black Harlem.  Alain Locke (1885-1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong commitment to the visual arts. Offering an in-depth study of Locke’s writings and art world interventions, Kobena Mercer focuses on the importance of cross-cultural entanglement. This distinctive approach reveals Locke’s vision of modern art as a dynamic space where images and ideas generate new forms under…