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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

I thinkthat Kerry James Marshall has all but redefinedthe whole concept of what Black art...

I think
that Kerry James Marshall has all but redefined
the whole concept of what Black art is about

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I think that Kerry James Marshall has
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all but redefined the whole concept
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of what Black art is about.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
38
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:46
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Two Dollars and a Dream

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An in-depth look at the works of up-and-coming Black visual artists.
To concentrate on just the Black subject - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
To concentrate on just the Black subject
And I think it's fascinating, not only from the point of view - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
And I think it's fascinating, not only from the point o...
KERRY: In the history of painting - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
KERRY: In the history of painting
You don't find many images of Black people in pictures. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
You don't find many images of Black people in pictures.
You certainly don't see a lot of images - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
You certainly don't see a lot of images
At the end of the 19th century, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:25
At the end of the 19th century,
And that's what abstraction sort of says, in a way, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
And that's what abstraction sort of says, in a way,
There's work that needs to be done - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
There's work that needs to be done
One of the exercises she had us do in that class - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
One of the exercises she had us do in that class
You had to make a collage and then bring that collage back - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
You had to make a collage and then bring that collage back
So that you never really became too attached - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
So that you never really became too attached
I was very interested in, uh, non-Western philosophies - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
I was very interested in, uh, non-Western philosophies
KERRY: I had seen, uh, Black Girl's Window before. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
KERRY: I had seen, uh, Black Girl's Window before.
When I looked back at that work, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:12
When I looked back at that work,
And I made a painting called - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
And I made a painting called
Which is a Black figure against a black ground. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:04
Which is a Black figure against a black ground.
And it was the first time I had used this simplified, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:09
And it was the first time I had used this simplified,
And so that painting was the-- the one that established - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:07
And so that painting was the-- the one that established
One of the things I was trying to do was to embody in a picture - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
One of the things I was trying to do was to embody in a pict...
He describes the condition of invisibility - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
He describes the condition of invisibility