Making Race: Modernism and "Racial Art" in America

by Jacqueline Francis

Book Overview

Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial art" in the interwar years of the twentieth century. The term was widely used by critics and the public at the time, and was an unexamined, unquestioned category for the work of non-whites (such as Johnson, an African American), non-Westerners (such as Kuniyoshi, a Japanese-born American), and ethnicized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991453
• ISBN13: 9780295991450
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher