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

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 396 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations 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 Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism through the production of art works that spoke to African American migration and L.A.'s racial politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject African American artists -- California -- Los Angeles African American arts -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century Artists and community -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century ART -- Performance. ART -- Reference. ART -- American -- African American. African American artists African Americans Artists and community Race relations SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject California -- Los Angeles Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016041331 ISBN 9780822374169 0822374161

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