Soul of a Nation is a significant and transformative contribution to art history - and American history. uncovers an entire lost history of American art.-Jonathan Jones "The Guardian " this is an epic response to an epic subject and without doubt one of the shows of the year.-Mark Hudson "The Telegraph "Ĭivil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle.
This is a rich, absorbing and thought-provoking exhibition with enough themes and ideas to power three shows its size. At this turning point in the reassessment of African American art history, Soul of a Nation is a vital contribution to this timely subject.
Over 170 artworks by these and many other artists of the era are illustrated in full color.Ģ017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first use of the term "black power" by student activist Stokely Carmichael it will also be 50 years since the US Supreme Court overturned the prohibition of interracial marriage. It also explores the art-historical and social contexts with subjects ranging from black feminism, AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups to the role of museums in the debates of the period and visual art's relation to the Black Arts Movement. The book features substantial essays from Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration, respectively. Hendricks, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles White and Frank Bowling. Williams, Howardina Pindell, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Barkley L. Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T.
How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
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