The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367663155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Jo-Ann Morgan

Opis

This book covers a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: "Black Arts We Make": Aesthetics, Collaboration, and Social Identity in the Visual Art of Black Power  1. Pedigree of the Black Arts Movement: The March on Washington, Death of Malcolm X, and Free Jazz  2. Organization of Black American Culture: A Show of Respect  3. African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists: Finding a Black Aesthetic  4. Oakland Museum’s "New Perspectives in Black Art": Saying "Black Lives Matter" in 1968  Part II: The Black Panther Party in Photography and Print Ephemera  5. Huey P. Newton Enthroned: Iconic Image of Black Power  6. Eldridge Cleaver’s Visual Acumen and the Coalition of Black Power with White Resistance  7. Emory Douglas: Revolutionary Artist and Visual Theorist  8. Picturing the Female Revolutionary

O autorze

Jo-Ann Morgan is Professor of African American Studies and Art History at Western Illinois University, USA. Her previous book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Visual Culture, received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship in 2008.