1971: A Year in the Life of Color

300 Pages·23.882 MB·English

by  Darby English

Social Experiments with Modernism
1971
A Year in the Life
of Color
i
Introduction
ii
Social Experiments with Modernism
iii
Introduction
iv
Social Experiments with Modernism
v
Introduction
vi
1971
A Year in the Life
of Color
Darby English
The University of Chicago Press — Chicago and London
Introduction
The creation of representations, affects, and
desires by the human imagination is
subject to conditions but never predetermined.
Cornelius Castoriadis
Painting . . . had something inherent in itself
which I had to discover, which has nothing to do with
what exists, it has another kind of reality. . . .
And this is where it gets very challenging and the
question of being alone, this becomes —
I don’t think many black cats know how to be alone
when it requires this kind of concentration,
and when you are alone what do you have to say?
Do you have anything to say?
Norman Lewis
viii
Contents
Introduction.
Social Experiments with Modernism
1
Chapter 1.
How It Looks to Be a Problem
53
Chapter 2.
Making a Show of Discomposure
Contemporary Black Artists in America
123
Chapter 3.
Local Color and Its Discontents
The DeLuxe Show
193