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Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist (1st Edition) by Susan Earle (Editor), Kinshasha Holman Conwill, David C. Driskell, Richard J. Powell, Amy Helene Kirschke, Cheryl R. Ragar, Stephanie Fox Knappe, Renée Ater [Contributor], Susan Elizabeth Earle, Aaron Douglas Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-300-12180-6 / 0300121806 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12180-3 / 9780300121803 In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, prompting the philosopher and writer Alain Locke to dub him the “father of Black American art.” Working from a politicized concept of personal identity and a ut |