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Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties

Artist/Author: Teresa A. Carbone, Kellie Jones et al | Reference: P2444 | ISBN: 9781580933902 | Type: Publication

How 1960s African American artists and many of their sympathetic peers addressed the struggle for racial justice in powerful works of art is examined across a pivotal decade.

Riot

Artist/Author: Isaac Julien | Reference: P2445 | ISBN: 978-0870708879 | Type: Publication

An intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien , looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Contributors: Cynthia Rose, Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Black Bodyscapes – Photographs by Ajamu

Editor: David A. Bailey | Reference: P2026 | ISBN: 952368005 | Type: Publication

AJAMU’s photographs – Black Bodyscapes – explore the representation of theblack male body by focusing on the male nude and the concept of fetishism and fragmentation.

Black Male – Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art

Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Thelma Golden | Reference: P1991 | ISBN: 0-87427-093-6 | Type: Publication

Catalogue of an exhibition exploring the changing perceptions of African-American masculinity as interpreted in painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed-media work, as well as in film and video.

Communist Bigamist: Two Loves Stories

Artist/Author: Vaginal Davis and Susanne Sachsse | Reference: D1866 | Type: DVD

2 DVD documentation and soundtrack excerpts, plus postcards documenting the performance Communist Bigamist: Two Loves Stories.

The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Responsibility

Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Carol Becker | Reference: P1904 | ISBN: 0-415-90592-3 | Type: Publication

Professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist’s responsibility to society. Contributors: Page duBois, Ewa Kuryluk, Kathy Acker, Elizam Escobar, Martha Rosler, Eva Hauser,Coco Fusco, Carol Becker, Felipe Ehrenberg, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Michael Eric Dyson, Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri, Henry A. Giroux, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and B. Ruby Rich

Black People are Cropped: Sin Set Crawings 1997-2011

Artist/Author: William Pope.L | Reference: P1890 | ISBN: 978-3-03764-269-6 | Type: Publication

A selection of drawings made between 1997 and 2009.

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

Artist/Author: Darby English | Reference: P1777 | ISBN: 9780262514934 | Type: Publication

Examines the integrative and interdisciplinary strategies of five contemporary artists stressing the ways in which their work at once reflects and alters our view of its informing context: the advent of postmodernity in late twentieth-century American art and culture.

Cultural Grounding, Live Art and Cultural Diversity: Action Research Project

Artist/Author: Michael McMillan | Reference: P1703 | Type: Publication

Michael McMillan, Cultural Grounding, Live Art and Cultural Diversity: Action Research Project. This report was commissioned to discover how the Arts Council might widen its view of Performance or Live Art, recognise the importance of interdisciplinary work and give a place to innovatory Black performance work. Introduced by Sandy Nairne.

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