
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
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.
- Year: 2016
- Country: France
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Studio: Les Films d'Ici, Bachibouzouk, ARTE
- Keyword: artist, racism, art, educational, contemporary art, art history, harlem renaissance, art exhibition, american art, jim crow laws, african american history, african american art, african american studies, african american, american history, art documentary, wwi
- Director: Jacques Goldstein
- Cast: Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Powell, Robert O'Meally, Michael Rosenfeld