"The exhibition and publication Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance is intended to challenge conventional representations of the Harlem Renaissance and to provoke new readings of the period from a contemporary perspective. For the first time, British and American writers and curators have joined together to explore this subject in a collaborative partnership, to discuss the relation between art and social history, to look at black and white relationships, and at ideas of nationhood and internationalism...."

David A. Bailey, 'Introduction', Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance.

The images selected for the Web site have been chosen to illuminate some of the geographical, aesthetic and social connections which made the Harlem Renaissance such a defining moment, a period when a generation found a voice and in doing so set the agenda for popular culture in this century.

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