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• Title:We wanted a revolution : black radical women, 1965-85 : a sourcebook / edited by Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley ; texts by Connie H. Choi, Carmen Hermo, Rujeko Hockley, Catherine Morris, Stephanie Weissberg.
  
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• Variant Title:Black radical women, 1965-85 : a sourcebook
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Morris, Catherine, editor, writer of added text.
  Hockley, Rujeko, editor, writer of added text.
  Choi, Connie H., writer of added text.
  Hermo, Carmen, writer of added text.
  Weissberg, Stephanie, writer of added text.
  Brooklyn Museum, issuing body, host institution.
  
• Published/Created:Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Museum, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ1421 .W4 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Brooklyn Museum--Exhibitions.
  African American feminists--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
  African American women authors--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
  African American radicals--20th century--Exhibitions.
  African American women--Political activity--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Feminist literature--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Feminism--History--Sources--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:"Focusing on the work of black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color--distinct from the primarily white, middle-class mainstream feminist movement--in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period. Presenting a diverse group of artists and activists who lived and worked at the intersections of avant-garde art worlds, radical political movements, and profound social change, the exhibition features a wide array of work, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art, as well as photography, painting, sculpture, and printmaking." --Brooklyn Museum website, viewed April 11, 2017.
  
• Notes:Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, April 21-September 17, 2017.
  The artists represented in the exhibition include Emma Amos, Camille Billops, Kay Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Linda Goode Bryant, Beverly Buchanan, Carole Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ayoka Chenzira, Christine Choy and Susan Robeson, Blondell Cummings, Julie Dash, Pat Davis, Jeff Donaldson, Maren Hassinger, Janet Henry, Virginia Jaramillo, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lisa Jones, Loïs Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Carolyn Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Dindga McCannon, Barbara McCullough, Ana Mendieta, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Alva Rogers, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.
  This "Sourcebook gathers selected writings in order to situate radical art-making within the broader sociopolitical context of the period. It highlights the artists' and writers' own voices, in primary sources and original documents pertaining to several significant historical events, activist artist groups, and key exhibitions." --page 19.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780872731837 paperback
  0872731839 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: REVOLUTIONARY HOPE: LANDMARK WRITINGS, 1965
  85 / Rujeko Hockley
  SPIRAL, THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, AND "WHERE WE AT" BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS / Connie H. Choi
  1. Why Spiral? (1966) / Jeanne Siegel
  2. Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation (1969) / Larry Neal
  3. Africobra: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, 10 in Search of a Nation (1970) / Jeff Donaldson
  4. "Where We At" Black Women Artists (1972) / Kay Brown
  RACE AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION / Rujeko Hockley
  5. Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force (1969) / Mary Ann Weathers
  6. What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib (1971) / Toni Morrison
  7. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South (1974) / Alice Walker
  8. Black Feminism: A New Mandate (1974) / Margaret Sloan
  9. Litany for Survival (1978) / Audre Lorde
  FAITH RINGGOLD'S RADICAL ACTIVISM / Catherine Morris
  10. For the Women's House: Interview with Faith Ringgold (1972) / Michele Wallace
  COLLECTIVE ARTIST ACTIONS IN NEW YORK / Carmen Hermo
  11. Demands of Art Workers Coalition (1969) / Art Workers' Coalition
  12. To the Viewing Public for the 1970 Whitney Annual Exhibition (undated) Women Artists in Revolution, Women's Ad Hoc Committee, and Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation
  13. Letter of withdrawal from Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971 (1971) / William T. Williams
  14. Letter in defense of the Judson Three (1971) / Robert Projansky
  15. Letter of support for the Judson Three (1971) / The Committee to Defend the Judson Three
  16. Color Scheming (1981) / Lucy R. Lippard
  JUST ABOVE MIDTOWN GALLERY / Rujeko Hockley
  17. Letter to her parents (1967) / Linda Goode Bryant
  18. Cover artwork (undated) for Black Currant 1, no. 1 (May 1982) / Janet Henry
  19. B Culture 1, no. 1 (1986) / Craig Dennis Street
  20. Interview with Linda Goode Bryant (1994) / Tony Whitfield
  SENGA NENGUDI'S FREEWAY FETS / Rujeko Hockley
  21. Announcement card for Freeway Fets (1978) / Senga Nengudi
  COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE / Rujeko Hockley
  22. Black Feminist Statement (1977) / The Combahee River Collective
  STRUGGLING FOR DIVERSITY IN HERESIES / Catherine Morris
  23. Letters between Combahee River Collective and Heresies Lesbian Issue Collective in "Women's Traditional Arts
  -The Politics of Aesthetics," Heresies, issue 4 (1978)
  24. Third World Women Speak (1978) / Lowery Stokes Sims
  25. Editorial Statement in "Third World Women
  -The Politics of Being Other," Heresies, issue 8 (1979) / Naeemah Shabazz
  26. Mile Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum, in "The Women's Pages," Heresies, issue 14 (1982) / Lorraine O'Grady
  27. Editorial Statement and Heresies Collective Statement in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Sylvia Witts Vitale
  28. Some Do's and Don'ts for Black Women Artists, in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Emma Amos
  29. Untitled, in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Lorna Simpson
  30. Black Dreams, in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Lorraine O'Grady
  ANA MENDIETA'S DIALECTICS OF ISOLATION / Stephanie Weissberg
  31. Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, excerpts (1980)
  Introduction / Ana Mendieta
  Artist's statement / Beverly Buchanan
  Artist's statement / Janet Henry
  Artist's statement / Senga Nengudi
  Artist's statement / Howardena Pindell
  32. On Making a Video
  Free, White and 21 (1992) / Howardena Pindell
  GENDER POLITICS AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE, CLASS, AND SEXUAL IDENTITY / Carmen Hermo
  33. Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers (1981) / Gloria Anzaldua
  34. Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (1984) / Audre Lorde
  EIGHTIES / Rujeko Hockley
  35. Art (World) & Racism: Testimony, Documentation and Statistics (1987) / Howardena Pindell
  36. Confession
  -Filming Family: An Interview with Artist and Filmmaker Camille Billops (1996) / Bell Hooks
  37. Photo spread of Rodeo Caldonia (1987)
  38. She Came with the Rodeo (1994) / Lisa Jones.