Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight—Christ and Christianity in African American Art James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill
1. Propaganda Fide: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Catholic Church Kirsten Pai Buick
2. Reading Tanner/Recognizing Jesus James Romaine
3. The Blare of God’s Trombones: Modernizing Biblical Narratives in the Work of Aaron Douglas Caroline Goeser
4. The Sight of Black Folks: Malvin Gray Johnson’s Spiritual Paintings in Interwar America Jacqueline Francis
5. Christianity and Class in the Work of Archibald J. Motley Jr. Phoebe Wolfskill
6. The Aesthetics of Transcendence: William H. Johnson’s Jesus and the Three Marys Amy K. Hamlin
7. Sculpting the Spirit and the Flesh: The Religious Works of James Richmond Barthé James Smalls
8. Allan Rohan Crite’s (Re)Visioning of the Spirituals Julie Levin Caro
9. Sister Gertrude Morgan and the Materials of Visionary Art Elaine Y. Yau
10. “A Tried Stone”: Community, Conversion, and Christ in the Sculpture of William Edmondson Edward M. Puchner
11. Biblical and Spiritual Motifs in the Art of Horace Pippin Richard J. Powell
12. Assimilation and Aspiration: The Urbanity of Faith in James VanDerZee’s Representations of Religion Carla Williams
13. Deep Waters: Rebirth, Transcendence, and Abstraction in Romare Bearden’s Passion of Christ Kymberly N. Pinder
14. Creating History, Establishing a Canon: Jacob Lawrence’s The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Kristin Schwain
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index