Word: yet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that passage, James Baldwin gives one reason why he came to hate and fear white people. He looked at their art as into a mirror, and could not see himself there at all. In the "disastrously explicit medium of language" that he uses so well, Baldwin adds a yet icier thought: "This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt...
...poems that accompany the pictures on the following pages are all by Negroes, and all but one are by Americans. Yet Africa too moves in the depths of each; tender and ghostly, pantherlike, a mother bereaved. For every black American, as Claude McKay's poem suggests, makes peace-or else fails to make peace-with ancestors whose names, whose very tribes, were long since lost to consciousness . Henri Rousseau's pitch-black Snake Charmer reigns at Paris' Jeu de Paume. She makes immense cold phallic serpents writhe into the moonlight, sleepily. One may identify with...
...docks of Antwerp, or perhaps at a party, and asked the man to pose. 'Probably he gave no more than a morning to the multiple study that now hangs at the Brussels Royal Musum of Fine Arts. This portrait bulges with brilliance, makes room for itself; yet it is not monumental in feeling but intimate. Rubens spins his subject swiftly, eagerly, to see and show the same thing from four view points all at once. Who was the model? No one knows his name. Rubens presumably painted him for fun, for love of that gallant bronze head that seems...
George Bellows once remarked, and rightly, that "the name given to a thing is not the subject, it is only a convenient label. The subject is inexhaustible." Yet the label that Bellows gave to his 1909 masterpiece at Washington's National Gallery has weight. Both Members of This Club, he calls it, and there a black man and a white are trying to beat each other's brains out for money...
...back in the 1920s, a black scholar named Alain Locke remarked that "in the case of the American Negro, the sense of race is stronger than that of nationality." And yet, Locke pointed out, "some of the most characteristic American things are Negro or Negroid, derivatives of the folk life of this darker tenth of the population." Small wonder, then, that the greatest American Negroes feel torn at times...