Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
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.
2016 · Documentary, History · France
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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.
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Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation (2016) is a movie on MEDIACAST.
Country: France. Genre: Documentary, History. Year: 2016.
Director: Jacques Goldstein.
Starring: Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Powell, Robert O'Meally.
Plot: 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.
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What year was Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation released?
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation was released in 2016.
Who starred in Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation?
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation stars Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Powell, Robert O'Meally.
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Available in the MEDIACAST catalog on the web and official apps after you sign in.