We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872731839 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A landmark exhibition on display at the Brooklyn Museum from April 21 through September 17, 2017, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. Published by the Brooklyn Museum and distributed by Duke University Press. The accompanying Sourcebook republishes an array of rare and little-known documents from the period by artists, writers, cultural critics, and art historians such as Gloria Anzaldúa, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Lucy R. These documents include articles, manifestos, and letters from significant publications as well as interviews, some of which are reproduced in facsimile form. Helping readers to move beyond standard narratives of art history and feminism, this volume will ignite further scholarship while showing the true breadth and diversity of black women’s engagement with art, the art world, and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.We Wanted a Revolution will also be on display at the California A
Rujeko Hockley, formerly Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum, is now Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.. Catherine Morris is Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (2012) and Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound (2014). Sackler
Rujeko Hockley, formerly Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum, is now Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the editor of "Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts (2013), and coeditor of Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. About the AuthorCatherine Morris is Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (2012) and Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound (2014)
Five Stars Fascinating reading.