CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ART Part One The story of contemporary African American art must begin with the post-war culture and the emerging Civil Rights movement of the late fifties. By that time, Blacks were divided into two cultures—the culture of the...
WHAT WAS POP ART? Before it was anything else, Pop Art was American…and white…and urban….and male…and middle class…and straight. Pop Art was about affluence, about money and all the things that the middle class white male could afford to...