AFRICOBRA

Jarrell Wadsworth A. Jarrell

Description

Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the culture of Chicago's Black neighborhoods. The collective's aesthetics, especially the use of vibrant color, capture the rhythmic dynamism of Black culture and social life. In AFRICOBRA, painter, photographer, and collective cofounder Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive story of the group's creation, history, and artistic and political principles. From accounts of the painting of the groundbreaking Wall of Respect mural and conversations among group members to documentation of AFRICOBRA's exhibits in Chicago, New York, and Boston, Jarrell outlines how the collective challenged white conceptions of art by developing an artistic philosophy and approach wholly divested of Western practices. Featuring nearly one hundred color images of artworks, exhibition ephemera, and photographs, this book is at once a sourcebook history of AFRICOBRA and the story of visionary artists who rejected the white art establishment in order to create uplifting art for all Black people.

Sujets

• USA
• History of art
• Ethnic studies
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781478002246
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 40 Mo

Extrait

WADSWORTH A. JARRELL

EXPERIMENTAL ART TOWARD

Dûé Uéŝ Péŝŝ Dûà à ôô 2020

A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

With a foreword by Richard Allen May III

© 2020 DUKE UNIVERSIT Y PRESS . All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞

Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker in Scala, Avenir, and

handdrawn type based on Bauhaus. Typeset by BW&A Books.

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Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Fund of CAA.

This book is made possible by a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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  çàéé, çû à 1961 éô à é Hé Pà A Céé.

MY PEOPLE

The night is beautiful

So the faces of my people.

The stars are beautiful,

So the eyes of my people.

Beautiful, also, is the sun

Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

Langston Hughes

Jeff R. Donaldson.

Did you hear me? I said, Jeff Richardson Donaldson!

He was a bad boy. Yes he was.

Say, what did he do?

He was awake while others were asleep.

INFLUENCED BY, AND CADENCE AND SOME WORDS BORROWED

FROM, THE POEM “BOOM BOOM,” BY THE L ATE POET

Gilbert Hines

RIP, MY FRIEND

ïûŝàôŝ 

Bàç A à é Bàç Aéŝéç 

aFrîcobra Pçéŝ à Pôŝô 

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Açôééŝ 

ïôûçô 1

BLACK IN CHICAGO

GENESIS

41

19

THE WALL OF RESPECT

THE INCEPTION

75

49

A VISUAL ART PROPOSAL

FIRST COBRA EXHIBITION

RECRUITMENT

AFRICOBR A I

AFRICOBR A II

AFRICOBR A III

119

129

171

209

91

109

Contents

Pôŝŝç,  Eû Bà Gàé 241

Eôŝ 247

Rééŝ à Méà ïééŝ 249

aFrîcobra A  Côéçôŝ 251

aFrîcobra  Bôôŝ 253

Nôéŝ 255

Aŝ Bôàéŝ 263

ïé 271