Black Orpheus

Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

Kimberli Gant, Ndubuisi Ezeluomba

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Yale University Press
08 November 2022

History of Art & Design Styles; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Black & Asian studies

The first book to feature Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa’s place as a global center of modernist art and culture

This revelatory book shines a light on the understudied but important influence of African Modernism on the work of Black American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000). In 1965, a New York gallery displayed Lawrence’s Nigeria series: eight tempera paintings of Lagos and Ibadan marketplaces that were the culmination of an eight-month stay in Nigeria. Lawrence’s residency in Nigeria put him in touch with the Mbari Artists and Writers Club, an international consortium of artists and writers in post-independence Nigeria that published the arts journal Black Orpheus. The book and accompanying exhibition place the Nigeria series alongside issues of Black Orpheus and artwork created by Mbari Club artists, including Uche Okeke, Jacob Afolabi, Susanne Wenger, and Naoko Matsubara. Diverse essays explore the influence of Africa’s post-colonial movement on American modernists and developing African artists; the women of the Mbari group; and the importance of art publications in circulating knowledge globally.

Edited by: Kimberli Gant, Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 229mm,
ISBN: 9780300263176
ISBN 10: 0300263171
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 08 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kimberli Gant is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum. She is formerly McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba is the Françoise Billon Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.