Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts

by Aruna d'Souza

Book Overview

"An exploratory case study in institutional racism as it has manifested in the New York City art world" --Brooklyn Rail

In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till. In 1979, anger brewed over a show at New York's Artists Space entitled The Nigger Drawings. In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Harlem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943263140
• ISBN13: 9781943263141
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Badlands Unlimited
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very informative

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