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SUMMARY:From Redemption to Revolution: junk art and black power in 1960s C
 alifornia - Danny Widener\, Visiting Fellow\, CRASSH / University of Calif
 ornia\, San Diego\,
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DESCRIPTION:Postwar California produced a distinct African American avant-
 garde. In the aftermath of the 1965 Watts riot\, black artists based in Lo
 s Angeles pushed the parameters of consciously black art by offering a fun
 damental reevaluation of the meaning art could have in black lives. Much l
 ike avant-garde jazz musicians\, visual artists developed a unique mixed-m
 edia language that combined themes of political insurgency\, communitarian
  engagement\, and familiar cultural tropes of migration\, musical\, spirit
 uality\, and family. Augmented by a cross-generic engagement with sound an
 d text\, this bricolage avoided the formal limits of realist representatio
 n while producing a culturally specific aesthetics that artists could take
  as emblematic of the black liberation movement’s broader critique of th
 e limits of American society. 
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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