South of Pico : African American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s / Kellie Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Kellie, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American artists--California--Los Angeles.

African American artists.

African American arts--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

African American arts.

Artists and community--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Artists and community.

African Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and ArtforumIn South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, L.A.'s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. Jones characterizes their works as modern migration narratives that look to the past to consider real and imagined futures. She also attends to these artists' relationships with gallery and museum culture and the establishment of black-owned arts spaces. With South of Pico, Jones expands the understanding of the histories of black arts and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond.

Contents:

Emerge: Putting Southern California on the art world map

Claim: assemblage and self-possession

Organize: Building an exhibitionary complex

In motion: the performative impulse

Conclusion. Noshun: Black Los Angeles and the global imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822374169

0822374161

OCLC:

1148135550