Jarrell AFRICOBRA

Experimental Art toward a School of Thought
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0224-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Art History Publication Initiative

Painter, photographer, and cofounder of AFRICOBRA Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive history of the group’s creation, history, and artistic and political principles and the ways it captured the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life to create uplifting art for all black people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jarrell, Wadsworth A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations x
Black Art and the Black Aesthetic xv
AFRICOBRA: Principles and Philosophy xvii
Foreword / Richard Allen May III xxi
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1
Black in Chicago 19
Genesis 41
The Wall of Respect 49
The Inception 75
A Visual Art Proposal 91
First Cobra Exhibition 109
Recruitment 119
AFRICOBRA I 129
AFRICOBRA II 171
AFRICOBRA III 209
Postscript / Edmund Barry Gaither 241
Exhibitions 247
Reviews and Media Interviews 249
AFRICOBRA in Art Collections 251
AFRICOBRA in Books 253
Notes 255
Artist Biographies 263
Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Wadsworth A. Jarrell is a cofounder of AFRICOBRA and a visual artist who has taught art at Howard University, the University of Georgia, and Spelman College.