Langston Hughes's aesthetic ideas in the Harlem Renaissance period are of striking political implications with obvious characteristics of Black Aesthetics.For Hughes,the task of the black art is to pursue and represent beauty of the black people,which originates in the life of the black people.The essence of beauty is truth and the truth in life can be converted into the truth in art.His concept of 'truth' is based on the belief that the black art come from the life of the black people with independent aesthetic values and endeavor to reveal the truth of life.This aesthetic idea reflects the a...
