A Dream Deferred
The Art & Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston
by M. Akua McDaniel
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The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visual artists.
Excluded from the Charleston Renaissance because of his race and pushed to the edges of the Harlem Renaissance by geography and circumstance, Edwin Augustus Harleston was an artist caught between worlds.
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"Seen through the creative and personal lens of the Harlestons, McDaniel's riveting narrative of so-called 'Progressive Era' takes on a different air, a moment also shaped by rising Black ambitions, evolving artistic tastes, and impenetrable glass ceilings."―Richard J. Powell, Duke University, author of Going There: Black Visual Satire
M. Akua McDaniel, Ph.D., is a retired associate professor of art history and former chair of Spelman College’s Department of Art and Art History. She earned her BFA and MFA from Ohio University, completed her Ph.D. at Emory University, and received a certificate in Museum Collection Care and Management from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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