Icarus films has selected
Nov. 7 as the domestic DVD debut date for documentary filmmaker Jacques
Goldstein’s Black is the Color, an insightful look at the history of African-American
art over the past 150 years.
The context of
Goldstein’s work is set against a backdrop of post-Civil War reconstruction,
the Jim Crow laws of the South, World War I and the civil rights movement …
right up to the modern day.
Within these constructs,
the works of Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher and Jean-Michel
Basquiat are explored. Additionally,
examples of wrong-headed attempts are given — for example, in 1969 the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York launched an exhibit titled “Harlem on My Mind,” but
not a single African-American artist’s work was included in the exhibit.
Another example, it took
150 years for the same museum to finally getting around to hiring a curator to
fill in the gaps of African-American artists not represented in its vast
collection.
Black is the Color is presented in English, French and German, with
English subtitles.
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