Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

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DocumentaryHistory

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.

Crew

JG

Jacques Goldstein

Director

DS

Daniel Soutif

Writer

JG

Jacques Goldstein

Writer

AL

Anne Le Grevès

Producer

Cast

WL

Whitfield Lovell

KJ

Kerry James Marshall

EG

Ellen Gallagher

RP

Richard Powell

RO

Robert O'Meally

MR

Michael Rosenfeld

BM

Bridget Moore

EF

Eric Foner

DC

David C. Driskell

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

WE

Walter Evans

Patrick Albenque

Patrick Albenque

Narrator

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