Sentences with phrase «african cultural movement»

«We were all interested because we were participants in the broader Pan African cultural movement at that time.

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Contemporaneous with the French New Wave, there were many filmmakers working in France of African origin whose work has rarely been absorbed into the cultural and aesthetic history of the movement.

Hip hop, as a cultural movement, had its origins in the New York City Bronx in the 1970s, mostly among African Americans, with some Jamaican and Latin American influences.

Curated by Okwui Enwezor for the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, The Short Century is the first major survey to examine this dynamic and politically - charged era in African art and history, and how liberation movements and art have been bound together in the forging of new cultural identities.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

The Short Century presents a cultural context in which the intense politics of African freedom movements are displayed: from the initial struggles for independence following the Second World War, to the collapse of apartheid in South Africa and the establishment of democratic governments in the nations of Africa.

Enwezor and his curatorial team of Mark Nash, Co-Curator, Film; Rory Bester, Associate Curator; Lauri Firstenberg, Associate Curator; and Chika Okeke, Associate Curator, investigated a variety of sources to document European domination from 1885 — 1945, the development of political and cultural consciousness from the mid-1940s through the 1950s, the decade of independence from 1960 - 1970, and liberation movements in African nations.

It focuses on works by primarily African - American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions who were working during the civil rights movement, the 1965 Watts riots and the era's general social and cultural upheaval: Ed Bereal, Wallace Berman, Nathaniel Bustion, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, Charles Dickson, Mel Edwards, David Hammons, Daniel La Rue Johnson, Ed Kienholz, Ron Miyashiro, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, Joe Ray, Betye Saar, Kenzi Shiokava and Timothy Washington.

Such as: What did women's liberation, primarily a white, middle - class movement, have to offer African - American women in a country where, as late as the 1960s, de facto slavery still existed; a country where racism, which the movement itself shared, was soaked into the cultural fabric?

During the Harlem Renaissance in the United States, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that brought the explosion of African - American literature, music and art, African - American artists aimed to re-conceptualize their identity and represent their heritage and tradition with a sense of cultural pride.

His work also references African - American political and cultural movements from the 1960s to today, including the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Mmovements from the 1960s to today, including the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts MovementsMovements.

His participation in arts organizations included his role as a founding member of Spiral, an association of African American artists that came together in 1963 to support the civil rights movement; his 1964 appointment as the first art director of the newly established Harlem Cultural Council, a prominent African American advocacy group with several hundred members; and his role in concert with artists Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis (with seed money from the Ford Foundation), as a founding member of Cinque Gallery which supported young minority artists.

The works on view explore visual and cultural framing practices to re-contextualize European, African, and American aesthetic and cultural movements from Minimalism and Dada to Black Lives Matter.

Johnson's artworks, which have been identified with the post-black art movement, meditate on the cultural phenomena that shape African - Americans as a social group.