TY - BOOK AU - English,Darby TI - 1971: a year in the life of color /Darby English SN - 9780226274737 AV - N6538 .A943 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - African American art KW - Exhibitions KW - History KW - Art, Abstract KW - United States KW - Art, American KW - 20th century KW - Art and race KW - Art and society KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Social aspects KW - Nineteen seventy-one, A.D KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction: Social experiments with modernism --; The figure of the black modernist --; Making a show of discomposure: Contemporary Black Artists in America --; Local color and its discontents: the DeLuxe show --; Appendix: Raymond Saunders, Black is a color; 2; b N2 - In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. 1971: A Year in the Life of Color looks at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their effortsand those of their advocatesto further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a black aesthetic, these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability. 'Contemporary Black Artists in America' highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while 'The DeLuxe Show' positioned abstraction in a center of urban blight. The importance of these experiments, English argues, came partly from color's special status as a cultural symbol and partly from investigations of color already under way in late modern art and criticism. With their supporters, black modernistsamong them Peter Bradley, Frederick Eversley, Alvin Loving, Raymond Saunders, and Alma Thomasrose above the demand to represent or be represented, compromising nothing in their appeals for interracial collaboration and, above all, responding with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding cultures preoccupation with color UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1334000&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -