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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Charles White’s Murals and History as Art
Sarah Kelly Oehler
Description: Charles White: A Retrospective
Charles White: A Retrospective
As this observation indicates, and as the murals themselves demonstrate, White understood history as a continuum of events that directly led to the harsh realities faced by black people in his day. He mined historical texts and turned to sociological research — the study of the present — that documented the...
Author
Sarah Kelly Oehler (Editor), Esther Adler (Editor)
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright© 2018 by The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.21-37
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100006
Chapter subject tags:White, Charles, 1918-1979Mural painting and decoration, American--20th centuryAfrican American artists--United States--20th centuryAfrican Americans--HistorySchomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938Locke, Alain, 1885-1954South Side (Chicago, Ill.)United States. Works Progress AdministrationMural painting and decoration, Mexican--20th century

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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Charles White’s Murals and History as Art