ISBN:
9781478002468
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 395 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zorach, Rebecca, 1969 - Art for people's sake
DDC:
700.89/96073
Keywords:
AFRICOBRA (Group of artists) History
;
Organization of Black American Culture History
;
City planning Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Artists and community History 20th century
;
Black Arts movement
;
African American arts History 20th century
;
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations 20th century
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Chicago, Ill.
;
Kunst
;
Person of Color
;
Schwarze
;
Africobra
;
Geschichte 1965-1975
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1215/9781478002468
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478002468
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