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(10pp)The Harlem Renaissance watched the
flourishing of African American literature, music,
dance, art and social commentary in the neighbor-
hood newly transformed by the great migration of
African Americans to the North during WWI. The
renaissance was a time when Black Americans had a
chance to demonstrate the creative and intellectual
abilities that they possessed. Nightclubs,
community centers, cafes, publishing houses and
galleries sprang up in Harlem amongst the enormous
level of energy and excitement. 'It captured all
that the wild young things of the 1920s wanted to
be.' Bibliography lists 10 sources. (sources follow)
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outstanding contributions to American art history. Paintings, sculpture, graphics, and architectural and decorative art objects serve to remind us of the diversity, aesthetic quality and humanistic strength of minority creative
efforts through the centuries. It is particularly poignant that a great body of work came out of the only period in the United States, named after a psychological condition,
the Great Depression. History The process of creative synthesis continued in this country as it had across the ocean,
where the African had borrowed much from other cultures. He borrowed from conqueror, conquered, from new neighbors or traders and ancestors. As any artist does, he also invented. Through this
invention and adaptation, he developed art forms and new cultures of his own. As early as the eighteenth
century records show African Americans, both slave and free, worked in the fields of painting, woodcarving, gold or silversmithing, engraving or wood-block printing. Although, these vocations were regarded as
functional at the time, they offered more scope for the creative talents of the artist-craftsman than did making of articles for use for the plantation. It can also be
noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists followed
the mainstream of art. At first, it was somewhat stiff and formal and later over-sentimentalized, exemplifying how one period of art history may be reactionary against another. This
reflected the trend of the times, which turned from eighteenth-century formality to nineteenth-century Romanticism in reaction to the ugliness produced by the Industrial Revolution. The trend toward realism that developed
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