In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on three controversial exhibitions that integrated African American culture and art, Cahan shows how the art world's racial politics is far more complicated than overcoming past exclusions.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Electronic Refractions II at the Studio Museum in Harlem
- 2. Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 3. Contemporary Black Artists in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art
- 4. Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual and The Sculpture of Richard Hunt at the Museum of Modern Art
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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