8 juillet 2021
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Tamara Espiñeira, « Julia R. Myers, Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists: 1945 Through the Black Arts Movement », Critique d’art, ID : 10.4000/critiquedart.78088
Myers’ book and exhibition makes us discover a vibrant place and period where history was made behind the invisible borders of the segregated U.S. From the College for Creative Studies to the Gallery of the Contemporary Studio, Detroit was, from the late fifties to the seventies, an intense greenhouse that made African American Art bloom. Choosing Harold Neal as the story arc for this compilation of African American Artists is not trivial. Not only he was an unknown artist, “his work is artis...