Art and Racial Tension

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Research Abstract
Art and Racial Tension

In summary, the black person, when he came here imbued with the riches of his African heritage, was not able to manifest it because this was a luxury denied a slave. Those who did get a chance to work in the visual arts negated their African experience for the most part by painting in the fashionable style of the time. In a sense, the loss was America's, since the force and dynamics that black people brought to music and dance and the subsequent evolution of these forms have not had equal opportunities in the visual arts. In recent years, black people have begun to do their thing in art and the activity that first occurred in the Negro Renaissance of the twenties is now reaching a new peak in this era of cultural nationalism. The potential is here today for a great cultural resurgence to help overcome the suppression - cultural and economic - that black artists have faced.

Obviously, this is not to say that such priorities as welfare reform and Medicare and housing should be halted; hungry, homeless people are not going to be totally involved in the arts. However, what America and concerned people in the society should realize is that while the war on poverty deals with materialistic needs that have long been denied, contributions to the spirit are needed to inspire and sustain the drive for social change.

CONTENTS
Reduce racial tensions through art? Certainly.
Encourage art education in the ghetto.
How to teach.
The Black artist.
No Black museum of modern art.
What is the Black Aesthetic?
Misunderstanding today's Black painters.
What is needed?
Black art today.

In summary, the black person, when he came here imbued with the riches of his African heritage, was not able to manifest it because this was a luxury denied a slave. Those who did get a chance to work in the visual arts negated their African experience for the most part by painting in the fashionable style of the time. In a sense, the loss was America's, since the force and dynamics that black people brought to music and dance and the subsequent evolution of these forms have not had equal opportunities in the visual arts. (from abstract)
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Book
Evans, W. Leonard, Jr.
8397-1225-1
+1 page
December, 1969
PUBLISHER DETAILS

Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.
New York
NY,
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