Zorach Rebecca Zorach

Art for People's Sake (eBook, PDF)

Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002468
• Artikelnr.: 56139198

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Zorach is Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History at Northwestern University and the author and editor of several books, including The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations  vii
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago  1
1. Claiming Space, Being in Public  30
2. Cultural Nationalism and Community Culture  85
3. An Experimental Friendship  124
4. The Black Family  179
5. Until the Walls Come Down  215
6. Starring the Black Community  257
Notes  299
Bibliography  349
Index  375