Kobena Mercer

A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance. Critic and theorist Alain Locke (1885–1954) was a foundational figure of the Harlem Renaissance who argued that changing self-perceptions among Black artists and writers would alter America’s view of itself as a whole. Offering a new interpretation of Locke’s influential writings, Kobena...