Subject
Research Guides
Art History:
Art of the Harlem Renaissance
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on the Harlem Renaissance. Please also see the guides for African & African-American Art, African-American & Caribbean Literature, and African-American Studies.
Background Information Sources
| Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History v. 3 | REF E 185 .E54 2006 V. 3 |
| Black Women in America v. 2 | REF E 185.86 .B542 2005 V. 2 |
| History of African-American Artists (chapter: The Twenties and the Black Renaissance) | REF N 6538 .N5 B38 1993 |
| African-American Art & Artists (chapter: New Americanism & Ethnic Identity 1920-1940) | REF N 6538 .N5 L38 1994 |
| Oxford History of Art: African-American Art (chapter 3: 20th Century America & Modern Art 1900-1960) | REF N 6538 .N5 P38 1998 |
| Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance | REF N 6538 .N55 R56 1997 |
| African-American Writers (2 v.) | REF PS 153 .N5 A344 2001 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 v. 51 | REF PS 153 .N5 A396 1987 |
| Gale Critical Companion to Harlem Renaissance (3 v.) | REF PS 153 .N5 H245 2003 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below:
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Or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers ML 3556 (African-American music), N 6538 .N5 (African-American art) and PS 153 .N5 (African-American literature).
Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism/Infotrac: author biographies and criticism.
- Biography Resource Center/InfoTrac: find biographies of living and deceased historical figures.
- American National Biography: find biographies of deceased American historical figures.
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Arts, Biography, History, Literature, or Music.
- Library of Congress guide to Harlem Renaissance materials
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html
- online resources from the Library of Congress as well as links to other web sites. - ArtLex on African-American Art: Harlem Renaissance
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/african_american_4.html
- history and examples of Harlem Renaissance art - Harlem History (Columbia University)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/index.html
- history of the neighborhood, arts, culture, and politics of Harlem