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Art for people's sake : artists and community in black Chicago, 1965-1975 / by Rebecca Zorach

Zorach, Rebecca, 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019

1 Online-Ressource (xx, 395 Seiten)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Art for people's sake / Zorach, Rebecca (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4780-0246-8 (ebook)

978-1-4780-0100-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4780-0140-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1158298978     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1215/9781478002468

LI 99900  | LO 94250      Ähnliche Literatur

NX512.3.A35

700.89/96073

Basisklassifikation: 71.62 (Ethnische Beziehungen) ; 20.10 (Kunst und Gesellschaft)

*Chicago, Ill. ; Kunst ; Person of Color ; Schwarze ; Africobra ; Geschichte 1965-1975     Zum Register

LOC-SH: AFRICOBRA (Group of artists) -- History ; Organization of Black American Culture -- History ; City planning -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century ; Artists and community -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century ; Black Arts movement -- Illinois -- Chicago ; African American arts -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century ; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century ; Electronic books

Claiming space, being in public -- Cultural nationalism and community culture : on the beach, opportunity please knock, and the Affro-Arts Theater -- An experimental friendship -- The Black family -- Until the walls come down -- Superreal images and superreal people.

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In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black filmmakers, artists on Chicago's South and West Sides built a vision of art as service to the people. In Art for People's Sake Rebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the visual arts of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how artistic innovations responded to decades of racist urban planning that left Black neighborhoods sites of economic depression, infrastructural decay, and violence. Working with community leaders, children, activists, gang members, and everyday people, artists developed a way of using art to help empower and represent themselves. Showcasing the depth and sophistication of the visual arts in Chicago at this time, Zorach demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics and artistic practice in the mobilization of Black radical politics during the Black Power era.