Kellie Jones

South of Pico

African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

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Produktbeschreibung

Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism through the production of art works that spoke to African American migration and L.A.'s racial politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361459
• ISBN-10: 0822361450
• Artikelnr.: 45053364

Autorenporträt

Kellie Jones

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. South of Pico: Migration, Art, and Black Los Angeles  1
1. Emerge: Putting Southern California on the Art World Map  23
2. Claim: Assemblage and Self-Possession  67
3. Organize: Building an Exhibitionary Complex  139
4. In Motion: The Performative Impulse  185
Conclusion. Noshun: Black Los Angeles and the Global Imagination  265
Notes  277
Selected Bibliography  359
Index  379