A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance "Mercer's sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the 'not yet finalized story of Afro-modern art and culture.'"--Douglas Field, Times Literary Supplement Alain Locke (1885-1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong...