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23%OFFDarby English - 1971: A Year in the Life of Color - 9780226131054 - V9780226131054
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1971: A Year in the Life of Color

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Description for 1971: A Year in the Life of Color Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; ACXJ; AGC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Art historian Darby English is celebrated for working against the grain and plumbing gaps in historical narratives. In this book, he explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of black cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, an integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto.1971 takes an insightful look at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their and their advocates' efforts to ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226131054
SKU
V9780226131054
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Ref
99-12

About Darby English
Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.

Reviews for 1971: A Year in the Life of Color
[An] attractive volume. . . . English offers a dynamic and comprehensive study of colour as a sociopolitical tool, and how this affected the way that colour was more widely negotiated by the wider cultural context.
Aesthetica English argues that modern art in the form of abstraction gave black artists the intellectual freedom to develop beyond the confines of ... Read more

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