Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925–1945

Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945is the accompanying catalogue for the exhibition of the same at the Studio Museum in Harlem. 

This exhibition explored the visual, literary, and performing creativity present in several movements: the Harlem Renaissance, the WPA era, and the formative years of Abstract Expressionism. Proposing expansive ideas about modernism, this exhibition was organized around four major themes: "African Art and Modernism: from Primitivism to Abstraction," "Location, Space and Self-Image: Remapping the Terrain of Black Creativity,""The Black Body: Transgressive, Erotic and Performative Vehicle," and "The Black Church and Modernism: Religiousity Versus Spirituality."