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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: English, Darby. 1971 : A Year in the Life of Color. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, ©2017 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Darby English |
ISBN: | 9780226274737 022627473X |
OCLC Number: | 979106528 |
Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction. Social Experiments with Modernism; Chapter 1. How It Looks to Be a Problem; Chapter 2. Making a Show of Discomposure: Contemporary Black Artists in America; Chapter 3. Local Color and Its Discontents: The DeLuxe Show; Appendix: Raymond Saunders, Black Is a Color (1967); Acknowledgments; Index. |
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In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: 'Contemporary Black Artists in America', at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and 'The DeLuxe Show', a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. This title looks at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts - and those of their advocates - to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a 'black aesthetic, ' these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability.
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