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Art for People's Sake - Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 (Paperback)
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Art for People's Sake - Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 (Paperback)
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In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable
flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement.
From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and
the establishment of independent community art centers to the work
of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black filmmakers, artists on
Chicago's South and West Sides built a vision of art as service to
the people. In Art for People's Sake Rebecca Zorach traces the
little-told story of the visual arts of the Black Arts Movement in
Chicago, showing how artistic innovations responded to decades of
racist urban planning that left Black neighborhoods sites of
economic depression, infrastructural decay, and violence. Working
with community leaders, children, activists, gang members, and
everyday people, artists developed a way of using art to help
empower and represent themselves. Showcasing the depth and
sophistication of the visual arts in Chicago at this time, Zorach
demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics and artistic practice
in the mobilization of Black radical politics during the Black
Power era.
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