
Released
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.
Keywords
artist
racism
art
educational
contemporary art
art history
harlem renaissance
art exhibition
american art
jim crow laws
african american history
african american art
african american studies
african american
american history
art documentary
wwi
Casts
Whitfield Lovell
Kerry James Marshall
Ellen Gallagher
Richard Powell
Robert O'Meally
Michael Rosenfeld
Bridget Moore
Eric Foner
David C. Driskell

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Walter Evans

Patrick Albenque
Narrator
Crews
Jacques Goldstein
Director
Daniel Soutif
Writer
Jacques Goldstein
Writer
Patrick Goraguer
Music
Zarma / Sodi
Music
Jacques Goldstein
Editor
Fabienne Pacher
Assistant Editor
Anne Le Grevès
Producer
Annouk Guerin
Post Production Supervisor
Julie Groen
Production Assistant
Fred Baleyte
Graphic Designer
Renaud Natkin
Sound Mixer
Annouk Guerin
Translator