South of Pico
African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
by Kellie Jones
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Pub Date Apr 07 2017 | Archive Date Mar 31 2017
Duke University Press | Duke University Press Books
Description
In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, L.A.'s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. Jones characterizes their works as modern migration narratives that look to the past to consider real and imagined futures. She also attends to these artists' relationships with gallery and museum culture and the establishment of black-owned arts spaces. With South of Pico, Jones expands the understanding of the histories of black arts and creativity in Los Angeles and beyond.
Advance Praise
“A gifted and original scholar, Kellie Jones offers unique and stimulating insights into the role L.A.’s close-knit African American artists and communities played in creating art spaces in museums, cultural centers, and storefronts. South of Pico is broad in scope, tracing the narratives of oft-neglected artists, exploring the contributions of women artists and feminist visual theory, and highlighting the history of collecting by Hollywood movie stars and entertainers. Wonderfully innovative and extraordinarily researched, South of Pico is a foundational study for western American art.” — Deborah Willis, author of, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
"Born of decades of research as well as her award-winning exhibition Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980, this brilliant book by Kellie Jones narrates the rise of this African American art world. Examining the migration of black visual artists to Los Angeles, she discloses the geography of artistic invention against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, black power and arts activism, and violent unrest. With this volume, Professor Jones has authored a nuanced and essential history of African American art in the West." — Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780822361640 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 440 |
