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Art for people's sake : artists and community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975

Title: Art for people's sake : artists and community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 / Rebecca Zorach.
Author: Zorach, Rebecca, 1969-
Publication: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

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Description

xx, 395 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

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. -- Publisher description.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Claiming space, being in public -- Cultural nationalism and community culture -- An experimental friendship -- The Black family -- Until the walls come down -- Starring the Black community.

Call Number

Sc E 19-676

ISBN

9781478001003
1478001003
9781478001409
1478001402

LCCN

2018035542
40029026546

OCLC

1048938511

Author

Zorach, Rebecca, 1969- author.

Title

Art for people's sake : artists and community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 / Rebecca Zorach.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Standard Identifier

40029026546

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-676

JQE 23-426

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