The Wall of Respect : public art and Black liberation in 1960s Chicago / edited by Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, Rebecca Zorach.
Alkalimat, Abdul, editor, author.; Crawford, Romi, editor, author.; Zorach, Rebecca, 1969- editor, author.
2017
ND2639.3.A35 W35 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The Wall of Respect : public art and Black liberation in 1960s Chicago / edited by Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, Rebecca Zorach.
ISBN
9780810135932 (paperback)
0810135930 (paperback)
9780810135949 (electronic book)
0810135949 (electronic book)
Published
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
362 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
ND2639.3.A35 W35 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
751.7308996077311
Summary
The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago' is the first in-depth, illustrated history of a lost Chicago monument. The Wall of Respect was a revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) on the South Side of Chicago in 1967. This book gathers historic essays, poetry, and previously unpublished primary documents from the movement's founders that provide a visual guide to the work's creation and evolution. Painters and photographers worked side by side on the mural's seven themed sections, which featured portraits of Black heroes and sheroes. The Wall became a platform for music, poetry, and political rallies. Over time it changed, reflecting painful controversies among the artists as well as broader shifts in the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements. At the intersection of African American culture, politics, and Chicago art history, The Wall of Respect offers, in one keepsake-quality work, an unsurpassed collection of images and essays that illuminate a powerful monument that continues to fascinate artists, scholars, and readers in Chicago and across the United States.
Note
The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago' is the first in-depth, illustrated history of a lost Chicago monument. The Wall of Respect was a revolutionary mural created by fourteen members of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) on the South Side of Chicago in 1967. This book gathers historic essays, poetry, and previously unpublished primary documents from the movement's founders that provide a visual guide to the work's creation and evolution. Painters and photographers worked side by side on the mural's seven themed sections, which featured portraits of Black heroes and sheroes. The Wall became a platform for music, poetry, and political rallies. Over time it changed, reflecting painful controversies among the artists as well as broader shifts in the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movements. At the intersection of African American culture, politics, and Chicago art history, The Wall of Respect offers, in one keepsake-quality work, an unsurpassed collection of images and essays that illuminate a powerful monument that continues to fascinate artists, scholars, and readers in Chicago and across the United States.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349) and index.
Added Author
Alkalimat, Abdul, editor, author.
Crawford, Romi, editor, author.
Zorach, Rebecca, 1969- editor, author.
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Introduction / Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, and Rebecca Zorach
I. Looking at the Wall of Respect. Painters, poets, and performance: looking at the Wall of Respect / Rebecca Zorach
Poetry. The Wall / Gwendolyn Brooks
The Wall / Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti)
Black culture / Useni Eugene Perkins
Black art spirits / Alicia L. Johnson
II. Heroes and heroines. The heroes and heroines of the Wall of Respect / Abdul Alkalimat, with contributions by Rebecca Zorach
III. The wall in history and cultural politics. Black Chicago: the context for the Wall of respect / Abdul Alkalimat
Black liberation: OBAC and the makers of the Wall of Respect / Abdul Alkalimat
OBAC documents. Invitation letter and statement of purposes / The Committee for the Arts (Gerald A. McWorter, Hoyt W. Fuller, Conrad Rivers)
Black people and their art / Gerald A. McWorter
Festival of the Arts / OBAC
OBAC position paper : some ideological considerations / Gerald A. McWorter
Inaugural program / OBAC
Visual Arts Workshop report / OBAC (prepared by Myrna Weaver and Jeff Donaldson)
OBAC : Organization of Black American Culture ("all-purpose handout") / Gerald A. McWorter
An invitation to OBAC dialogues : rappin' Black / Joseph Simpson
By-laws of the Organization of Black American Culture / Hoyt W. Fuller and Gerald A. McWorter
Who is on the wall and why / Gerald A. McWorter
What is a Black hero? / OBAC
Black heroes / OBAC Officer transition (memorandum) / OBAC
OBAC progress meeting (letter) / Hoyt W. Fuller and Joseph Simpson
Black Arts Movement articles. Culture consciousness in Chicago / Hoyt W. Fuller
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians / Muhal Richard Abrams and John Shenoy Jackson
OBAC: a year later / Hoyt W. Fuller
Toward a Black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller
IV. The impact of photography. Black photographers who take Black pictures / Romi Crawford
Camera works and the Wall of Respect / Romi Crawford
V. Reverberations. Conflict and change on the Wall / Rebecca Zorach
Reverberations. Wall paintings on 43d St. show Black man's triumph / Sam Washington, The Defender, August 28, 1967
Crowds gather as 'Wall' is formally dedicated / Dave Potter, The Defender, October 2, 1967
Wall of Respect : artists paint images of Black dignity in heart of city ghetto / Ebony, December 1967
The rise, fall, and legacy of the Wall of Respect movement / Jeff Donaldson, The International review of African American art, 1991
Interview with William Walker (excerpt) / Victor Sorell, June 1991
William Walker discusses the Wall : Chicago mural group conversation, 1971
Interview with Eugene "Eda" Wade (excerpt) / Rebecca Zorach and Marissa Baker, 2015
The Wall of Respect : how Chicago artists gave birth to the ethnic mural / Norman Parish III, Chicago tribune, August 23, 1992
Wall of Respect symposium (excerpt) / opening address by Romi Crawford and Roundtable discussion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 2015
The Wall / Roger Bonair-Asgard.

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