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Resistance, Insurgence and Identity
Robert L. Douglas
其他書名
The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement
出版Africa World Press, 2008
ISBN15922156459781592215645
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tk4rAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book shows how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies. Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., many African Americans shifted their interest from the Civil Rights movement with its emphasis on integration and equality to Black Liberation with its emphasis on nationalism, self-determination and separation, socially and culturally. Some black artists decided to join the struggle, in what came to be known as the Black Arts Movement. Larry Neal defined this movement as being ?radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community. [It] is the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept [and,] as such, it envisions an art that speaks directly to the needs and aspirations of Black America. In order to perform this task, the Black Arts Movement programs a radical reordering of Western cultural aesthetics. It proposes a separate symbolism, mythology, critique and iconology.? The art of Mari Evans and Nelson Stevens exemplify the spirit of achievements and self-determination, consciously or not, that links them to the Black Art Movement. This book examines how Evans’ and Stevens’ ethos, fashioned by their lives and certain influences, causes each to create the messages that became their personal resistance, insurgence and defense against the ideological effects of racism.