Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation (2016)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2016-07-07
Runtime: 52 minutes
Director: Jacques Goldstein
Top Cast
- Whitfield Lovell as
- Kerry James Marshall as
- Ellen Gallagher as
- Richard Powell as
- Robert O'Meally as
- Michael Rosenfeld as
- Bridget Moore as
- Eric Foner as
- David C. Driskell as
- Jean-Michel Basquiat as
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