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Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

2016 · 52 min Documentary History

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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Year 2016
Country France
Genre Documentary, History
Director Jacques Goldstein
Runtime 52 min.

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Released in 2016, this film holds up just as well today. Best for: genre fans and those open to something unconventional.

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