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Art Monthly 288 | Back to Black: art, cinema and the racial imaginary

Review relating to an exhibition, 2005
Published by: Art Monthly
Year published: 2005
Number of pages: 2

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2 sheets A4 portrait/monochrome reproduction from original/Review taken from Art Monthly issue 288, July - August 2005/page 28 -29

Title: Back to Black: art, cinema and the racial imaginary, 7 June - 4 September 2005
Author: Marcus Verhagan

Review of the group exhibition that took place at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Review contains photographic reproduction: Gordon Parks, Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver with a portrait of Huey Newton 1970. From the article: “It is a busy, garrulous, polyphonic show - and one that covers different places and media. The curators, Richard J Powell, David A Bailey and Petrine Archer-Shaw, concentrate on developments in the US, Jamaica and Britain, showing film clips, fashion designs and album covers alongside paintings, prints and sculptures. And like Rhapsodies in Black, the 1997 Hayward show on the Harlem Renaissance, which was also curated by Powell and Bailey, Back to Black is accompanied by a fine, ambitious catalogue.”

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»  Richard J. Powell

Born, 1953 in Chicago, USA.

»  Melvin Van Peebles

Born, 1932

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»  The New Art Gallery Walsall

Walsall, United Kingdom

»  Whitechapel Art Gallery

London, United Kingdom