Time is now (David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art)
Title:
The time is now! : art worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980 / edited by Rebecca Zorach and Marissa H. Baker ; with contributions by Davarian Baldwin, Skyla Hearn, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Mary Pattillo, Barry L. Plotkin, Marissa H. Baker, Patric McCoy, Romi Crawford, Tempestt Hazel, Arlene Crawford.
Published on the occassion of the exhibition The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980, organized by the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, presented September 13-December 30, 2018. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Interview: Editors' acknowledgments -- New worlds / Doors, walls, and windows: an introduction / Marissa H. Baker. Backgrounds. -- "1968 was such a pivotal year": the art and activism of Black Power Chicago / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Geneses of the DuSable Museum / Skyla S. Hearn -- As bad as we wanna be: the enduring legacy of the OBAC Writers' Workshop / Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Visions of the city / Rebecca Zorach -- Shaping institutions, making space. -- Coloring outside the lines / Mary Pattillo -- Recollections of Lakeside Gallery / Barry Plotkin -- OsĐun Art Center / Yaounde Olu -- Interview: Lester Lashley -- Interview: Suellen Rocca -- Contestation, separation, solidarity. -- Elective affinities on the South Side of Chicago / Rebecca Zorach -- AFRICOBRA / Marissa H. Baker -- Only in her house: Dr. Margaret Burroughs's DuSable Museum, the community's center / Skyla S. Hearn -- Collecting Black art / Patric McCoy -- Getting the message out. -- Getting the message out, calling people in: the mural movement on the South Side of Chicago / Marissa H. Baker -- The new art examiner / Marissa H. Baker -- Third world press: Black books and writers, still in style / Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Printmaking / Marissa H. Baker -- The photodocument as art / Romi Crawford -- Recalibrating the present and reclaiming the future. -- On self-determination and the construction and remembering of Black aesthetics / Tempestt Hazel -- Sheets of color: the inspiration of music / Rebecca Zorach -- The alley / C. Siddha Webber -- The Black arts movement and the performing arts / Shanta Nurullah -- Autonomous education / Arlene Turner-Crawford -- New worlds / Marissa H. Baker.
Summary:
"During the 1960s and 70s, Chicago was shaped by art and ideas produced and circulated on its South Side. Informed by the city's social, political, and geographic divides, this history of creative expression left behind a cultural legacy whose impact continues to unfold nationally and internationally. The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980, published in tandem with a major exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, examines this cultural moment--ripe with change and conflict--and the figures who defined it. Focusing primarily on the Black Arts Movement, The Time is Now re-examines watershed cultural moments: from the Hairy Who to the Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights Movement to AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The book contains a series of essays, interviews, and other contextual material, along with full-color images of all works included in the exhibition and extensive reproductions of ephemera and historical photographs"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.