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David C. Driskell
David Driskell
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Driskell was an American artist, scholar and curator; recognized for his work in establishing African-American Art as a distinct field of study.
In his lifetime, Driskell was cited as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of African-American Art.
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An introduction to the work of...Black Art: In the Absence of Light 2021
An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."
Black Is the Color highlights key...Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation 2016
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.
