The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American visual culture /
This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC and AfriCOBRA, who began questioning Western aesthetic traditions and created work that honored leaders...
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Routledge research in art and race.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: picturing Black Power. Part 1 "Black arts we make": aesthetics, collaboration, and social identity in the visual art of Black Power : Introduction to Part 1
- Pedigree of the Black Arts Movement: the March on Washington, death of Malcolm X, and free jazz
- Organization of Black American culture: a show of respect
- African commune of bad relevant artists: forging a Black aesthetic
- "New perspectives in Black art": an Oakland class of '68 says "Black Lives Matter". Part 2 The Black Panther Party in photography and print ephemera : Introduction to part 2
- Huey P. Newton enthroned: iconic image of Black Power
- Eldridge Cleaver's visual acumen and the coalition of Black Power with white resistance
- Emory Douglas: revolutionary artist and visual theorist
- Picturing the female revolutionary. Bibliography
- Index.