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Article: Black Is a Color.(Black Is a Color (A History of African American Art))(Book review)
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- Art Monthly
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- March 1, 2006
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Elvan Zabunyan, Black Is a Color (A History of African American Art), Dis Voir, Paris, 288pp, bw & col illus, 29.00 [pounds sterling], 2 914 563 20 5.
Black Is a Color claims to be 'both a historical study and a critical analysis [that] paints a picture of an America marked by its slave past, in which African American contemporary artists have been able to build a remarkable and engaged body of work to challenge the cultural and political consequences of racial discrimination'. Recently published by the French publisher Dis Voir this book takes its place alongside a fairly crowded bookshelf of introductory texts to the history of African American art. Beginning ...