D'Souza, Aruna, author.

Whitewalling : art, race & protest in 3 acts / Aruna D'Souza ; artwork by Parker Bright & Pastiche Lumumba.

New York : Badlands Unlimited, [2018]
©2018

149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"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

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Art and race History.
Freedom and art United States 20th century.
African Americans in art History.
African American artists Political activity.
Protest movements United States History.
Art Political aspects United States History 20th century.
Art and society United States History 20th century.
Racism and the arts.
Art et race Histoire.
Liberté et art États-Unis 20e siècle.
Art Aspect politique États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Art et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans l'art Histoire.
Artistes noirs américains Activité politique.
Contestation États-Unis Histoire.
Racisme et arts.
ART Criticism & Theory.
Art and Design.
African Americans in art
Art and race
Freedom and art
Beeldende kunsten.
United States

Nonfiction.
History

Bright, Parker, illustrator.
Lumumba, Pastiche, illustrator.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 301252
Cote: BIB 247416
Statut: Disponible