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South of Pico : African American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

Title
South of Pico : African American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s / Kellie Jones.
Author
Jones, Kellie, 1959-
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xvi, 396 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
In '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.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 17-561
ISBN
  • 9780822361459
  • 0822361450
  • 9780822361640
  • 0822361647
  • 9780822374169 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2016040906
  • 40027119601
OCLC
950955047
Author
Jones, Kellie, 1959- author.
Title
South of Pico : African American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s / Kellie Jones.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
AUTH: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. EXAMINES CREATION OF VIBRANT ARTS COMMUNITY IN FACE OF STRUCTURAL RACISM.
Other Standard Identifier
40027119601
Research Call Number
Sc E 17-561
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