"This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Etched in Collective History, organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, August 18-November 17, 2013." Artists include: Emma Amos, Edgar Arceneaux, Art Bacon, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Sharon Brazile, Sheila Pree Bright, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Zoë Charlton, Willie Cole, Thornton Dial, Leonardo Drew, Melvin Edwards, Nora Ezell, Theaster Gates, Lonnie Holley, Wadsworth Jarrell, Sr., Rashid Johnson, Norman W. Lewis, Whitfield Lovell, Danny Lyon, Kerry James Marshall, James "Spider" Martin, Chris McNair, Demetrius Oliver, Jefferson Pinder, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Shinique Smith, Gregory Warmack [Mr. Imagination], Carrie Mae Weems, Ernest Withers. "Etched in Collective History presents the work of artists who interrogate, depict, and memorialize the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement inspired a number of artists to participate physically, in marches and sit-ins, as well as creatively, through the act of making art. This exhibition presents the work of these artists and the artists who followed, telling a multi-generational story of the Civil Rights Movement. These various perspectives and works form a powerful synthesis of art, relating dynamic responses to our collective history."--from back cover. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's foreword / Gail Andrews -- Acknowledgments / Gail Andrews -- Preface / Jeffreen M. Hayes -- Esays. Etched in collective history / Jeffreen M. Hayes -- "Witnessing and testifying": Individual expression and social change in the civil rights movement / Erin Krutko Devlin -- Why Birmingham? / Rebecca Dobrinski -- A post civil rights story / Lauren Williams -- Catalogue.
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