A landmark exhibition on display at the Brooklyn Museum from April
21 through September 17, 2017, We Wanted a Revolution: Black
Radical Women, 1965-85 examines the political, social, cultural,
and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of
second-wave feminism. It showcases the work of black women artists
such as Emma Amos, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine
O'Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, making
it one of the first major exhibitions to highlight the voices and
experiences of women of color. In so doing, it reorients
conversations around race, feminism, political action, art
production, and art history in this significant historical period.
The accompanying Sourcebook republishes an array of rare and
little-known documents from the period by artists, writers,
cultural critics, and art historians such as Gloria Anzaldua, James
Baldwin, bell hooks, Lucy R. Lippard, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison,
Lowery Stokes Sims, Alice Walker, and Michelle Wallace. These
documents include articles, manifestos, and letters from
significant publications as well as interviews, some of which are
reproduced in facsimile form. The Sourcebook also includes archival
materials, rare ephemera, and an art-historical overview essay.
Helping readers to move beyond standard narratives of art history
and feminism, this volume will ignite further scholarship while
showing the true breadth and diversity of black women's engagement
with art, the art world, and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.
We Wanted a Revolution will also be on display at the California
African American Museum in Los Angeles from October 13, 2017
through January 14, 2018; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo,
New York from February 17, 2018 through May 27, 2018; and at the
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston from June 26, 2018 through
September 30, 2018. Published by the Brooklyn Museum and
distributed by Duke University Press
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