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Art, Cinema & the Racial Imaginary
Description:... This book "focuses on the rise of the Black Arts Movement in the U.S., Britain and Jamaica in the 1960s & 1970s, bringing together over forty artists whose work defined the emergence of a radical & powerful aesthetic. Their work testifies to a complex & widespread range of influences, breathtaking in the geographic, temporal & cultural sweep. African symbols & traditions blend with images of contemporary life ; the symbols of radical, militant activism with an imagined Afrofuturism. Played out across the broad cultural spectrum to encompass the visual arts, film, music & fashion, their work reveals a common visual language shared among artists across the Black Atlantic, and profoundly influential to subsequent generations." -- page 7.
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