Charles Mills Harlem Renaissance: It's Art, Music & Literature
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Date: Sat February 07, 2009 3:30pm
Title: Charles Mills Harlem Renaissance: It's Art, Music & Literature and Dinizulu Gene Tinnie LEGACY OF THE RENAISSANCE: EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN BLACK VISUAL ART
Description: Members $5 Non Members $10 Charles Mills' lecture looks at the national scope of this cultural phenomenon. The Harlem Renaissance demonstrated the irresistible impulse of African Americans to create boldly expressive art in response to social conditions thus affirming black dignity and humanity in the face of poverty and racism. Mr. Mills will present a selection of his artwork that portrays significant people of the Harlem Renaissance, some that he knew personally. Dinizulu Gene Tinnie The Harlem Renaissance (a distant but direct product of Europes own Renaissance era) was both a response and a significant contributor to the radical cultural changes in America and the world in the early 20th century. As such, it laid the foundation for much of African American and African World thought and cultural expression in the decades that would follow, with visual art as a particularly significant voice and barometer, so to speak, of the times, which would traverse the World War II period, the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Consciousness movement, the Hip Hop generation(s) and the current debatable, and debated, Post-Black moment in art. These developments will be traced both as chronological evolution and as rethinkings of the very purpose of art.
Address:
Coral Springs Museum of Art 2855 Coral Springs Drive
Coral Springs, FL 33065
For more information contact:
Sheri Adanti at 954.340.5000
http://www.csmart.org
