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The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960–1980

$ 39.95

What is “Black art”? This question was posed and answered time and time again between 1960 and 1980 by artists, curators and critics deeply affected by this turbulent period of radical social and political upheaval in America. Rather than answering in one way, they argued for radically different ideas of what “Black art” meant.


Across newspapers and magazines, catalogs, pamphlets, interviews, public talks and panel discussions, a lively debate emerged between artists and others to address profound questions of how Black artists should or should not deal with politics, about what audiences they should address and inspire, where they should try to exhibit, how their work should be curated, and whether there was or was not such a category as “Black art” in the first place.


Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Allie Biswas
Gregory R. Miller & CO.
628 pages/ paperback
ISBN 9781941366325