{"product_id":"1971-darby-english-9780226131054","title":"1971: A Year in the Life of Color","description":"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: \u003ci\u003eContemporary Black Artists in America\u003c\/i\u003e, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and \u003ci\u003eThe DeLuxe Show, \u003c\/i\u003ea racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e1971: A Year in the Life of Color \u003c\/i\u003elooks at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts--and those of their advocates--to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a \"black aesthetic,\" these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability. \u003ci\u003eContemporary Black Artists in America \u003c\/i\u003ehighlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while \u003ci\u003eThe DeLuxe Show\u003c\/i\u003e 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 modernists--among them Peter Bradley, Frederick Eversley, Alvin Loving, Raymond Saunders, and Alma Thomas--rose 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 culture's preoccupation with color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darby English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022613105X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226131054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 7.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017","brand":"Darby English","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795323965695,"sku":"9780226131054","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56c9be23-a54b-405f-b75e-2cceaca66f0e.jpg?v=1744947251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/1971-darby-english-9780226131054","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}