Josephine Baker Posters, Books, Links for Learning
for classrooms, homeschoolers, and dance studios.

Comprehensive selection of educational posters, art prints, books and a DVD celebrating entertainer Josephine Baker.

	• JOSEPHINE BAKER POSTERS CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY
	Josephine Baker, Art Print Josephine Baker, Pacific Art Print
	Josephine Baker, 1930, Louis "Zig" Gaudin, Giclee Print Josephine Baker Politeama Art Print • History of Posters
	Baker Revue Art Print Advertisement for "Bakerfix" Hair Brilliantine Featuring Josephine Baker, Giclee Print
	Josephine Baker - The Original Charleston, Giclee Print Did you know that the Charleston dance was named for the city of Charleston, SC?
	Bal Negre, Art Print Black Thunder, Art Prin Poster designer Paul Colin was briefly the lover of Josephine Baker.
	Josephine Baker, es Somogyi, a Mulato Paris Film Forum Poster Miss Josephine Baker, Poster
	Josephine Baker, Princesse Tam-Tam Movie Poster
	Josephine Baker Art Print
	Josephine Baker, at the Bobino Theatre, Art Print This poster advertises Baker’s final show, “Josephine,” a medley of pieces from her career. She performed it at the Bobino Theater and looked fabulous even though she was 68 years old. The show was a great success, however it was canceled after just a few days after it began when Josephine Baker passed away in her sleep.

“The violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”
Josephine Baker

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Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyliss Rose - influential, uninhibited entertainer's life is traced from her turbulent Missouri childhood to her fame as a jazz singer and dancer. "This indispensable biography treats in full the two cultures – American and continental – that formed Baker, and sets a new standard for critical studies of performing artists." Photos.

Josephine Baker by Ean Wood - Emerging from the sordid poverty and racial intolerance of early 20th century St. Louis, she delighted audiences all over America and Europe with her exuberant dancing and sexual frankness. The star of the infamous Folies Bergere, she earned a reputation, by turn , as a symbol of liberation and as a demon of licentiousness. But there was more to Josephine Baker than her act. She received the Legion d'Honneur for her role as an undercover agent during the Second World War. In the USA, Harlem dedicated a “Josephine Baker Day” in recognition of her work for racial equality, typified by her adoption of twelve orphans of all colours and creeds. Her life was an exhilarating ride which led to multiple divorces, bankruptcy and destitution. She would rise to the challenge one more time to win greater fame and new audiences before her untimely death. (from back cover)

Naked at the Feast: The Biography of Josephine Baker by Lynn Haney -Josephine Baker (Black Americans of Achievement) - Biography of the black American singer and dancer who achieved fame in Paris in the 1920s and was awarded the French Legion of Honor for her work during WWII. Grades 7-10

Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker - Biography of Josephine Baker by her adopted son.

Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s - In the years after the end of the First World War, large numbers of Africans and African Americans emigrated to the cities of Europe in search of work and improved social conditions. Their impact on white European society was immense. In Paris, where the artistic climate was particularly sensitive and experimental, avant-garde artists courted black personalities such as Josephine Baker, Henry Crowder, and Langston Hughes for their sense of style, vitality, and "otherness." Leger, Picasso, Brancusi, Man Ray, Giacometti, Sonia Delaunay, and others enthusiastically collected African sculptures and wore tribal jewelry and clothes. More importantly, they adopted black forms in their work, and their style soon influenced a larger audience anxious to be in vogue. A passion for black culture swept through Paris, and by the end of the 1920s, black forms that had provided the initial spark to the modernist vision had become the commercially successful Art Deco style. Negrophilia, from the French negrophilie--the contemporary term to describe the craze--examines this commingling of black and white cultures in jazz-age Paris. Painting, sculpture, photography, popular music, dance, theater, literature, journalism, furniture design, fashion, and advertising--all are scrutinized to show how black forms were appropriated, adapted, and popularized by white artists. The photographs, writings, and memorabilia of poet Guillaume Apollinaire, art collectors Paul Guillaume and Albert Barnes, shipping heiress and publisher Nancy Cunard, and Surrealists Michel Leiris and Georges Bataille help to recreate the contemporary atmosphere. The book raises questions about the avant-garde's motives, and suggests reasons and meaning for its interest. 115 b/w photographs and illustrations. [book description]

The Josephine Baker Story (DVD)

The Fabulous Josephine Baker (Audio CD)

Princess Tam Tam (1935) VHS

Zou Zou (1934) VHS

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LINKS FOR LEARNING: JOSEPHINE BAKER