Civil War to Civil Rights: How African American Artists Engage the Past – February 24, 2014
Centuries of Art @ Your Library
Centuries of Art @ Your LibraryEvie Terrono, Associate Professor of Art History, Randolph-Macon College
Through the critical lens of the political, legal, and cultural changes that marked the transition from slavery to the Civil War to the Civil Rights period in the 1960s and 1970s, this presentation will examine depictions of the multifaceted and highly politicized dimensions of “race” and American identity in the artistic production of African American artists. Artists as such as Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Kehinde Wiley and Hank Willis – among many others – will be discussed.
When
February 24, 2014 07:30 PM – 09:00 PM
Location
Williamsburg Library, 515 Scotland St.
Room: Theatre
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