Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
About Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
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…
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation (2016) is a documentary history film directed by Jacques Goldstein. Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Richard Powell lead the cast.
At 52 minutes long, it arrived in July 2016. Written by Daniel Soutif and Jacques Goldstein.
Shelv files it under artist, world war i, art, and african american. In the United States it streams on OVID.
Nickel Boys, 12 Years a Slave, and Glory make useful companions to Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation, all filed under african american history and american history.