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Author:

Jones, Kellie, 1959- author.

Title:

South of Pico : African American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s / Kellie Jones.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvi, 396 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

African American artists--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
African American arts--History--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Artists and community--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Emerge: Putting Southern California on the art world map -- Claim: assemblage and self-possession -- Organize: Building an exhibitionary complex -- In motion: the performative impulse -- Conclusion. Noshun: Black Los Angeles and the global imagination.

Summary:

In 'South of Pico' Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, L.A.'s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. Jones characterizes their works as modern migration narratives that look to the past to consider real and imagined futures. She also attends to these artists' relationships with gallery and museum culture and the establishment of black-owned arts spaces. With South of Pico, Jones expands the understanding of the histories of black arts and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond.

ISBN:

0822361647
9780822361640
0822361450
9780822361459

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950955047

LCCN:

2016040906

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)