![]() ![]() In museums, galleries, and the art market, previously overlooked female artists, past and present, are now gaining recognition and value. ![]() The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, it reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever. The book concludes with a look at how Manet’s and Matisse’s depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimé Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas. ![]() It starts by examining the legacy of Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the Black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic “other.” Murrell also traces the impact of Manet’s reconsideration of the Black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of Black dancers as icons of modern beauty. ![]() It proposes that a history of modernism cannot be complete until it examines the vital role of the Black female muse within it. Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Todayįeaturing over 175 illustrations, Posing Modernity illuminates long-obscured Black sitters from across art history. ![]()
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