Black art notes /

"Black Art Notes is a collection of essays edited by artist and organizer Tom Lloyd. Originally published in 1971, the book was conceived as a critical response to the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art but grew into a "concrete affirmati...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lloyd, Tom, 1929-1996 (Editor, author of introduction.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, [2020]
Subjects:	Art, Black. Art, Black > Philosophy. African American art. Artists, Black. African American artists. Black Arts movement.

Table of Contents:

White critic : Black art??? / Melvin Dixon
Black art : white cultural institutions / Tom Lloyd
Counter statement to Whitney Ritz Bros / Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones)
The role we want for Black art / Jeff Donaldson
White art historians : Black art / Bing Davis
Rebuttal statement to the Whitney Museum's introduction / Ray Elkins
The Black artist : his role in the struggle / Francis and Val Gray Ward
The re-defining of Black art / Babatunde Folayemi (Tony Northern)
Appendix : The introduction in the catalog of the "Contemporary Black artists in America" exhibition at the Whitney Museum, April, 1971 / Robert Doty.