Overview - Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary
  • History

Runtime: 52 minutes

Homepage: Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

Budget

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Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Français
  • Deutsch

Production companies

  • Name: Les Films d'Ici

    Production country France

  • Name: Bachibouzouk

    Production country France

  • Name: ARTE

    Production country France

Overview

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.

Cast

  • Name: Whitfield Lovell

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    Popularity: 0.0071

  • Name: Kerry James Marshall

    Character:

    Popularity: 0.0261

  • Name: Ellen Gallagher

    Character:

    Popularity: 0.0143

  • Name: Richard Powell

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    Popularity: 0.0404

  • Name: Robert O'Meally

    Character:

    Popularity: 0.0379

  • Name: Michael Rosenfeld

    Character:

    Popularity: 0.0214

  • Name: Bridget Moore

    Character:

    Popularity: 0.0071

  • Name: Eric Foner

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    Popularity: 0.1677