Soul of a Nation

Beschrijving

Tent. Londen, Tate Modern, 12-07-2017, 22-10-2017 ; Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 03-02-2018, 23-04-2018 ; New York, Brooklyn Museum, 07-09-2018, 03-02-2019. - Groepstentoonstelling documenteert de rol die Afro-Amerikaanse kunstenaars speelden bij de ontwikkeling van de contemporaine kunst in de twee decaden na 1963. - In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of twentieth-century black artists