Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
ISBN-10
1580933904
ISBN-13
9781580933902
Series
Witness
Category
Art
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2014
Authors
Teresa A. Carbone, Kellie Jones, Connie H.. Choi

Description

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a Brooklyn Museum survey of the paintings, sculptures, graphics and photography from the counterculture decade explores how period art was defined by social protest and racial conflicts.

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