I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Author Wil Haygood, Contributions by Carole Genshaft and Anastasia Kinigopoulo and Nannette V. Maciejunes and Drew Sawyer
- Publish Date: October 09, 2018
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Art - Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
- Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
- Trim Size: 8-3/4 x 10-3/4
- Pages: 248
- US Price: $55.00
- CDN Price: $75.00
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-6312-9
Reviews
"Celebrating the centennial of the creative and intellectual flowering, “I Too Sing America” is a unique exploration of the subject that brings a journalist together with his hometown museum and the community where he grew up in Columbus, Ohio... Titled after Langston Hughes’s iconic poem, “I Too Sing America” considers the Harlem Renaissance “as a movement not confined to either upper Manhattan or the interwar period, but as a historical moment of national and international significance that continues to have reverberations far beyond its typically noted end date in the mid-1930s.” The catalog is a wonderful volume lavishly illustrated with the art and photography that defined the Renaissance. Haygood’s essays on how Harlem emerged as the mecca of Black America, the feverish publishing the period sparked, the dance, theater, and music the era engendered, the two Reverend Powells, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, appear throughout the volume. His contributions are punctuated by writings about individual visual artists, including Malvin Gray Johnson, Winold Reiss, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Augusta Savage, and James VanDerZee, authored by the museum’s curators." —Culture Type