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Soul of a nation : art in the age of Black power / edited by Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley ; with contributions by Susan E. Cahan, David C. Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Linda Goode Bryant, Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : D.A.P/Distributed Art Publishers Inc, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781942884170
  • 1942884176
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Contents:
Introduction / Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley -- Spiral to FESTAC / Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley with contributions by Susan E. Cahan : Spiral and the March on Washington ; Art and unrest in Los Angeles ; Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and the Black Arts Movement ; Roy DeCarava and the Kamoinge Workshop ; The Wall of Respect and the mural movement ; Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party newspaper ; Painting Black Power ; 'Black Art' debates in pamphlets and magazines ; The Studio Museum in Harlem ; The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition ; Abstraction shows ; AfriCOBRA ; Three graphic artists ; Contemporary Black artists in America ; Black women artists ; Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin ; Avant-garde filmmakers ; Rituals in Los Angeles ; Just above Midtown ; The Black Photographers Annual ; FESTAC '77 -- Essay : Notes on Black abstraction / Mark Godfrey ; American skin: artists on Black figuration -- Recollections : Samella Lewis ; Edmund Barry Gaither ; David C. Driskell ; Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell ; Linda Goode Bryant.
Summary: In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of twentieth-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams and Frank Bowling. This book features substantial essays from co-curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration respectively. It will also explore the art historical and social contexts with subjects including black feminism; AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups; the role of museums in the debates of the period; and where visual art sat in relation to the Black Arts Movement.
List(s) this item appears in: Black History Month for Adults
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 700.8996 S722 Available 33111008618098
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans?

Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Howardina Pindell, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles White and Frank Bowling.

The book features substantial essays from Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration, respectively. It also explores the art-historical and social contexts with subjects ranging from black feminism, AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups to the role of museums in the debates of the period and visual art's relation to the Black Arts Movement. Over 170 artworks by these and many other artists of the era are illustrated in full color.

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first use of the term "black power" by student activist Stokely Carmichael; it will also be 50 years since the US Supreme Court overturned the prohibition of interracial marriage. At this turning point in the reassessment of African American art history, Soul of a Nation is a vital contribution to this timely subject.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Modern, London, July 12-October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3-April 23, 2018; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019.

"First published 2017 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd, Millbank, London SWIP 4RG"--Imprint page.

In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of twentieth-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams and Frank Bowling. This book features substantial essays from co-curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration respectively. It will also explore the art historical and social contexts with subjects including black feminism; AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups; the role of museums in the debates of the period; and where visual art sat in relation to the Black Arts Movement.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes filmography.

Introduction / Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley -- Spiral to FESTAC / Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley with contributions by Susan E. Cahan : Spiral and the March on Washington ; Art and unrest in Los Angeles ; Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and the Black Arts Movement ; Roy DeCarava and the Kamoinge Workshop ; The Wall of Respect and the mural movement ; Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party newspaper ; Painting Black Power ; 'Black Art' debates in pamphlets and magazines ; The Studio Museum in Harlem ; The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition ; Abstraction shows ; AfriCOBRA ; Three graphic artists ; Contemporary Black artists in America ; Black women artists ; Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin ; Avant-garde filmmakers ; Rituals in Los Angeles ; Just above Midtown ; The Black Photographers Annual ; FESTAC '77 -- Essay : Notes on Black abstraction / Mark Godfrey ; American skin: artists on Black figuration -- Recollections : Samella Lewis ; Edmund Barry Gaither ; David C. Driskell ; Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell ; Linda Goode Bryant.

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