Abdul Alkalimat, Rebecca Zorach, Romi Crawford

Broschiertes Buch

The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago

Beschreibung

Offers the first in-depth, illustrated history of a lost Chicago monument. The Wall of Respect was a revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture in 1967. This book gathers historic essays, poetry, and previously unpublished primary documents from the movement's founders that provide a visual guide to the work's creation and evolution.

Autor

ABDUL ALKALIMAT is an activist and the founding chairperson of the Organization of Black American Culture, which led the creation of the Wall of Respect in 1967. He is an emeritus professor of the School of Information Sciences and the Department of African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ROMI CRAWFORD is an associate professor in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies and in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. REBECCA ZORACH is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History at Northwestern University.

Produktdetails

• Second to None: Chicago Storie
• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 182mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1022g
• ISBN-13: 9780810135932
• ISBN-10: 0810135930
• Artikelnr.: 47777194