Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation (2016)

N/A 52 min Movie
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.

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Cast

Whitfield Lovell Whitfield Lovell
Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall
Ellen Gallagher Ellen Gallagher
Richard Powell Richard Powell
Robert O'Meally Robert O'Meally
Michael Rosenfeld Michael Rosenfeld
Bridget Moore Bridget Moore
Eric Foner Eric Foner
David C. Driskell David C. Driskell
Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat
Walter Evans Walter Evans
Patrick Albenque Patrick Albenque Narrator

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