Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

07 Jul 2016

France

52 mins

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History

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.

Whitfield Lovell
as
Kerry James Marshall
as
Ellen Gallagher
as
Richard Powell
as
Robert O'Meally
as
Michael Rosenfeld
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Bridget Moore
as
Eric Foner
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David C. Driskell
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Walter Evans
as
Patrick Albenque
as Narrator