http://www.huliq.com/13/83703/ny-museum-exhibits-emory-douglas
July 18th, 2009
New Museum, New York will run an exhibition named 'Emory Douglas:
Black Panther'. The exhibition will be on view from 7/22/09 to
10/18/09 and is curated by Sam Durant.
Some of Emory Douglas's images are nearly forty years old, but they
are still as powerful as when Douglas first created them. They are
dangerous pictures, and they were meant to change the world.
Emory Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist of the Black Panther Party
and subsequently became its Minister of Culture, part of the national
leadership. He created the overall design of the Black Panther, the
Party's weekly newspaper, and oversaw its layout and production until
the Black Panthers disbanded in 197980.
Throughout the '60s and '70s, Douglas made countless artworks,
illustrations, and cartoons, which were reproduced in the paper and
distributed as prints, posters, cards, and even sculptures. All of
them utilized a straightforward graphic style and a vocabulary of
images that would become synonymous with the Party and the issues it
fought for.
"Emory Douglas: Black Panther" includes a wide variety of Douglas's
work done while a member of the Black Panther Party. Curated by the
Los Angeles artist Sam Durant, whose work often deals with political
and cultural subjects in American history, the show includes
approximately 165 posters, newspapers, and prints dating from 196776.
Durant met Emory Douglas in 2002 and began working on a book of
Douglas's work, which resulted in a monograph published in 2007. Two
years later Durant curated "Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of
Emory Douglas" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,
which serves as a model for the exhibition at the New Museum.
The presentation of "Emory Douglas: Black Panther" at the New Museum
is organized by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, with Amy
Mackie, Curatorial Assistant.
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