Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum

Contents

vii Acknowledgments ix A Note on Terminology xv Introduction African Americans Enter the Art Museum 1 1. Negro Art in the Modern Art Museum 17 2. Black Artists and Activism Harlem on My Mind, 1969 53 3. Filling the Void Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1976 87 4. New York to L.A. Black Male: Representations of Black Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, 1994–1995 110 5. Back to the Future The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, 2002 135 Conclusion African Americans after the Art Museum 155 Epilogue Harlem on My Mind 161 Notes 165 Index 193 Color galleries follow pages 78 and 142. contents ...