The Many Shades of Gay As the previous posts pointed out, many artists who were gay were caught up in attempts from various forces, both political and religious, to censor art. Confused and angered that art would be attacked in a land of free speech, the American art...
The Reception of “Queer Art” Part Two A large blue painting, the color of a dark daylight sky, filled with falling birds, dropping from the heavens, wings paralyzed in death is one of the great images on the AIDS crisis. Using the discredited and...
WHAT IS “HOMOSEXUAL ART?” Part One Once again, the question arises. Like the questions of what is “Black Art?” What is “Chicano Art” What is Women’s Art?’ the query demands a neat definition that is impossible to give. Is...
THE EIGHTIES AND BLACK ART All artists of color are faced with the question of whether or not to assert their ethnic identity in their art or to simply make art without ethnicity. The white world expects Chicanos to make only murals, for example, and expects Blacks...
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...
CHICANO HISTORY AND HERITAGE “We are a Brown People with a Bronze Culture” Part Three In asking the question what is Chicano art, one is inevitably asking another question what is art? Chicano art did not fit into the white Western mainstream definition of...
