BLACK ARTISTS IN AMERICA: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO THE BICENTENNIAL DOORMAT explaining its origins and range

explaining its origins and range

A leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s

Includes a soft cream mountboard surround

and—just as with real flowers—no two blossoms are exactly the same

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

BLACK ARTISTS IN AMERICA: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO THE BICENTENNIAL DOORMAT explaining its origins and rangeDuring the turbulent 1950s to 1970s, Black American artists, responding to increasing civil rights activism, challenged inequities in the art world. Artists created works that celebrated their racial identity, connected with Black audiences, and participated in the struggle for political, economic, and social equality. The establishment of artist collectives, such as Spiral, and museums devoted to Black art, including the Studio Museum in Harlem,