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Whitewalling : art, race & protest in 3 acts
- Title
- Whitewalling : art, race & protest in 3 acts / Aruna D'Souza ; artwork by Parker Bright & Pastiche Lumumba.
- Author
- D'Souza, Aruna
- Publication
- New York : Badlands Unlimited, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 149 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till. In 1979, anger brewed over a show at New York's Artists Space entitled The Nigger Drawings. In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Harlem on My Mind did not include a single work by a black artist. In all three cases, black artists and writers and their allies organized vigorous responses using the only forum available to them: public protest. Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts reflects on these three incidents in the long and troubled history of art and race in America. It lays bare how the art world--no less than the country at large--has persistently struggled with the politics of race, and the ways this struggle has influenced how museums, curators and artists wrestle with notions of free speech and the specter of censorship. Whitewalling takes a critical and intimate look at these three "acts" in the history of the American art scene and asks: when we speak of artistic freedom and the freedom of speech, who, exactly, is free to speak?" -- Publisher's description
- Alternative Title
- Whitewalling : art, race and protest in three acts
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Enhanced e-book with multimedia contents available on Apple iBooks and Amazon Kindle.
- Contents
- Setting the stage -- Act 1: Open casket, Whitney Biennial, 2017 -- Act 2: The nigger drawings, Artists Space, 1979 -- Act 3: Harlem on my mind, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-188
- ISBN
- 9781943263141
- 1943263140
- OCLC
- 1026350400
- Author
- D'Souza, Aruna, author.
- Title
- Whitewalling : art, race & protest in 3 acts / Aruna D'Souza ; artwork by Parker Bright & Pastiche Lumumba.
- Publisher
- New York : Badlands Unlimited, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Enhanced e-book with multimedia contents available on Apple iBooks and Amazon Kindle.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Bright, Parker, illustrator.Lumumba, Pastiche, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-188