Description
The accompanying Sourcebook republishes an array of rare and little-known documents from the period by artists, writers, cultural critics, and art historians such as Gloria Anzaldúa, James 1st earl baldwin of bewdley, bell hooks, Lucy R. Lippard, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Lowery Stokes Sims, Alice Walker, and Michelle Wallace. These documents include articles, manifestos, and letters from significant publications in addition to interviews, some of which are reproduced in facsimile form. The Sourcebook also includes archival materials, rare ephemera, and an art-historical overview essay. Helping readers to move beyond standard narratives of art history and feminism, this volume will ignite further scholarship even as showing the actual breadth and diversity of black women’s engagement with art, the art world, and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.
We Wanted a Revolution can also be on display on the California African American Museum in Los Angeles from October 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York from February 17, 2018 through May 27, 2018; and on the Institute of Recent Art/Boston from June 26, 2018 through September 30, 2018.
Published by the Brooklyn Museum and distributed by Duke University Press