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Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis
by AAJ Staff
Benjamin Looker Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis Missouri Historical Society Press Distributed by University of Missouri Press 316 pages ISBN: 1883982510 2004When I arrived in St. Louis, Missouri from the West Coast, I learned quickly ...
'Poets of Action': The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 4-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 SOURCE ESSAY The most thorough overview of the Black Artists' Group to date is Peter Madden's unpublished Master's Thesis, “Creative Collectivism: A Study of the AACM, BAG, and the CAC," (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, April 1996), though Madden's focus is ...
Poets of Action: The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 1-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 St. Louis has always been careful to cover its tracks, razing its history so it can start over again with a clean slate. Occasionally, though, the past sticks a foot in the door of the future and demands to be let in. One ...
Poets of Action: The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 2-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ACTIVISM AND AFROCENTRISM The new intersection of politics and the arts that emerged in the 1960s enabled BAG members to engage in projects reflecting some of the political and social tenor of the time. The theater component of BAG, in particular, ...
'Poets of Action': The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 3-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ST. LOUIS, PARIS, NEW YORK CITY After four years of operation in St. Louis, the leading musicians of BAG had grown frustrated with the lack of opportunities in St. Louis and in the United States. As mentioned earlier, Hemphill's record label ...
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