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Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Film

Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

201652 min
DocumentaryHistory

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.

Director
Jacques Goldstein

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Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation runs 52 minutes (52m).
Who stars in Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation?
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation stars Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Powell, Robert O'Meally.

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