Now dig this! : art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Kellie, 1959-
Corporate Authors: Getty Foundation, Hammer Museum, Pacific Standard Time (Exhibition)
Other Authors: Carby, Hazel V.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Munich ; New York : Hammer Museum : University of California ; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ann Philbin
  • Acknowledgments / Kellie Jones
  • Now dig this! : an introduction / Kellie Jones
  • The art of creative survival / Daniel Widener
  • Defending Black imagination : the "L.A. Rebellion" school of Black filmmakers / Jacqueline Stewart
  • Black art in L.A. : photographs by Robert A. Nakamura / Karin Higa
  • Find the cave, hold the torch : making art shows since Walter Popps / Franklin Sirmans
  • Los Angeles snapshots / Roberto Tejada
  • Rebellion and its aftermath : assemblage and film in L.A. and London / Naima J. Keith
  • Figuring the future in Los(t) Angeles / Hazel V. Carby
  • Frontrunners : Melvin Edwards ; William Pajaud ; Betye Saar ; Charles White ; Friends: Mark di Suvero, Ron Miyashiro, Tyrus Wong
  • Assembling : Daniel LaRue Johnson ; John Outterbridge ; Noah Purifoy ; John T. Riddle Jr. ; Betye Saar ; Friends: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Virginia Jaramillo, Gordon Wagner, Andrew ZermeƱo/Mechicano Art Center
  • Artists/gallerists : Alonzo Davis ; Dale Brockman Davis ; Suzanne Jackson ; Samella Lewis ; Friends: Sister Karen Boccalero/Self Help Graphics, Marie Johnson Calloway, Elizabeth Leigh-Taylor
  • Post/minimalism and performance : Fred Eversley ; David Hammons ; Maren Hassinger ; Ulysses Jenkins ; Senga Nengudi ; Friends: John Altoon, Houston Conwill, Charles Gaines, Joe Overstreet, Raymond Saunders
  • Epilogue: A suitcase : George Clack ; Dan Concholar ; Ruth G. Waddy
  • Selected chronology, 1960-80 / Jennifer Vanore.