Ala.) Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham
Publisher
Six Foot Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1950s, as Brown v. Board of Education felled the ideology of "separate but equal," the great African-American artist Jacob Lawrence saw the need for a version of American history that reckoned with its complexities and contradictions yet was shared by all its citizens. The result was his monumental work Struggle: from the History of the American People. Lawrence, the best known black American artist of the 20th century, developed the series...