Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Name: Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Director: Jacques Goldstein
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2016-07-07
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Powell, Robert O'Meally

Directed by Jacques Goldstein

Documentary

History

20160h 52m

Overview

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.