Art History GradForum Visiting Scholar Lecture
Preserving to Progress: Modernism’s Pasts in God’s Trombone
Event Details
Date
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Time
6 p.m.
Location
Description
Visiting scholar Kristin Schwain, University of Missouri-Columbia, examines poems and images published to preserve the sermons of antebellum Afro-American preachers before they vanished. Published in 1927 by the songwriter-author James Weldon Johnson, God’s Trombones includes images and typology produced the leading artists of Harlem Renaissance.
Cost
Free
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