How Long to Read Art, Education, and African-American Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Art, Education, and African-American Culture?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 15 minutes to read Art, Education, and African-American Culture by Mary Ann Meyers

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings. Less well known is the fact that Barnes attributed his passion for collecting art to his youthful experience of African-American culture, especially music. Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic and innovative figure and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African American contributions to the American aesthetic tradition. Mary Ann Meyers examines Barnes's background and career and the development and evolution of his enthusiasm for collecting pictures and sculpture. She shows how Barnes's commitment to breaking down invidious distinctions and his use of the uniquely arranged works in his collection as textbooks for his school, created a milieu where masterpieces of European and American late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century painting, along with rare and beautiful African art objects, became a backdrop for endless feuding. A gallery requiring renovation, a trust prohibiting the loan or sale of a single picture, and the efforts of Lincoln University, known as the "black Princeton," to balance conflicting needs and obligations all conspired to create a legacy of legal entanglement and disputes that remain in contention. This volume is neither an idealized account of a quixotic do-gooder nor is it a critique of a crank. While fully documenting Barnes's notorious eccentricities along with the clashing interests of the main personalities associated with his Foundation, Meyers eschews moral posturing in favor of a rich mosaic of peoples and institutions that illustrate many of the larger themes of American culture in general and African-American culture in particular.

How long is Art, Education, and African-American Culture?

Art, Education, and African-American Culture by Mary Ann Meyers is 492 pages long, and a total of 123,984 words.

This makes it 166% the length of the average book. It also has 152% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Art, Education, and African-American Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 17 minutes to read Art, Education, and African-American Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Art, Education, and African-American Culture?

Art, Education, and African-American Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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