edited and with an introduction by Tom Lloyd ; texts by Melvin Dixon, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Bing Davis, Ray Elkins ...[et al.]
- Auteur(s)
- Melvin Dixon, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Bing Davis, Ray Elkins, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Tom Lloyd
- Uitgever, jaar
- New York : Primary Information, 2021
- Omvang
- 42 p., 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781734489750
Published on the 50th anniversary of the original printing, Black Art Notes is a collection of essays edited by artist and organizer Tom Lloyd. Originally published in 1971, the book was conceived as a critical response to the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art but grew into a “concrete affirmation of Black Art philosophy as interpreted by eight Black artists,” as Lloyd notes in the publication’s introduction. The artists featured in the publication position the Black Arts Movement outside of white, western frameworks, and articulate the movement as one created by and existing for Black people. Their essays condemn the attempts of museums and other white cultural institutions to tokenize, whitewash, and neutralize Black art, and call for immediate political and institutional reform and the self-determination of Black cultural producers. While the publication was created to respond to a particular historicized moment, the systemic problems that it addresses remain pervasive, making the artists’ potent critiques both timely and urgent.
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Opmerkingen
- First published in 1971
