Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance ( also called the New Negro Movement ) was an artistic movement of African American writers and painters between about 1920 and 1930.

History

The Harlem Renaissance was the first flowering of African-American art that went beyond occasional works. Was triggered the movement, similar to the Jazz Age, by the mass emigration of black Americans from the South to the North. Located in New York 's Harlem district of African Americans Philip Payton took over the real estate market to a large extent from 1904. Since that time - and especially in the 1920s - Harlem became synonymous with African American culture because there lived the black middle class.

Significant influence on the movement had published by Alain LeRoy Locke anthology The New Negro (1925 ), in which the philosopher and critic collected prose, poetry, plays and essays of a new generation of African-American authors. In his foreword, Locke described the migration from the South to the North as " a kind of spiritual liberation," was the first time develop its own identity by the African American Art - beyond the white models. In the art of the Harlem Renaissance as play African traditions, African-American traditions, as well as gospel and jazz a major role. Even white authors, led by the journalist and photographer Carl Van Vechten, promoted the movement - and were influenced by it. The patron Charlotte Mason employed and promoted a number of artists, but also had their own understanding of Native American and African American culture.

In November 1926, the young generation of writers bestowed with the single issue of the magazine Fire! their voices heard.

Authors

Visual Artists

  • Richmond Barthé
  • Aaron Douglas
  • Palmer Hayden
  • William H. Johnson
  • Lois Mailou Jones
  • James van der Zee

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Venues

  • Barron Wilkins ' Exclusive Club
  • Connie 's Inn
  • Cotton Club
  • Small's Paradise
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