Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now
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Publisher : The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781588397850
ISBN-13 : 1588397858
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Book Synopsis Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now by : Akili Tommasino

Download or read book Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now written by Akili Tommasino and published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2024-11-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century onward, Black Americans looked to ancient Egypt as evidence of a preeminent ancient culture from the African continent. Flight into Egypt traces ancient Egypt’s influence on artists, from Edmonia Lewis’s sculpture The Death of Cleopatra (1876) to the efflorescence of Afrocentric visual art during the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and artistic tendencies of the ensuing decades. This volume explores how Black artists, writers, and musicians—and modern and contemporary Egyptian artists—have employed ancient Egyptian imagery to craft a unifying identity. Authors bring to light the overlooked contributions of Black scholars to the study of ancient Egypt, while statements by contemporary Black and Egyptian artists illuminate ancient Egypt’s continued hold on the creative imagination.


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