Kellie Jones

South of Pico

African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

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Produktbeschreibung

Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism through the production of art works that spoke to African American migration and L.A.'s racial politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361459
• ISBN-10: 0822361450
• Artikelnr.: 45053364

Autorenporträt

Kellie Jones, a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant," is Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the author of several books, including EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, also published by Duke University Press. Jones has curated numerous national and international exhibitions, including Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980 and Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. South of Pico: Migration, Art, and Black Los Angeles  1
1. Emerge: Putting Southern California on the Art World Map  23
2. Claim: Assemblage and Self-Possession  67
3. Organize: Building an Exhibitionary Complex  139
4. In Motion: The Performative Impulse  185
Conclusion. Noshun: Black Los Angeles and the Global Imagination  265
Notes  277
Selected Bibliography  359
Index  379