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4. Activism and the Shaping of Black Identities (1964–1988)
Adrienne L. Childs
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists
In the thick of the racially divisive American political climate of the 1960s civil rights era, Jean and Dominique de Menil embarked upon The Image of the Black in Western Art project, a herculean effort to document all of the images of blacks in Western art. They believed that...
Author
Adrienne L. Childs
PublisherHarvard University Press
Copyright© 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.131-178
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.008
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17733
Chapter subject tags:Black Arts movementBlack people--Race identity--United States--History--20th centuryCivil rights movements--United States--History--20th centuryAfrican American artists--United States--20th centuryCatlett, Elizabeth, 1915-2012Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988

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4. Activism and the Shaping of Black Identities (1964–1988)