{"product_id":"africobra-9781478000563","title":"AFRICOBRA","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePainter, photographer, and cofounder of AFRICOBRA Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive history of the group’s creation, history, and artistic and political principles and the ways it captured the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life to create uplifting art for all black people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What an amazing testimony from a founding member of one of the most important artists' collectives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries! Kudos to Wadsworth A. Jarrell for his thoroughly engaging and art historically significant memoir.” -- Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art \u0026amp; Art History, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e“The principles and philosophy of the collective AFRICOBRA in many ways defined the parameters of art making for politically conscious African American artists during the era of Black power. Who can forget their stunning manifesto that emphasized standards such as coolade color, shine, free symmetry, and mimesis at midpoint?! Now Wadsworth A. Jarrell‘s new book brings us a first-person account of this group and period from an artist who was there from the start. Beautifully illustrated, it offers a fresh perspective and significant references, and it serves as an important sourcebook for late twentieth-century practice. As the study of art moves beyond a New York--centric approach, histories coming out of major centers like Chicago are especially important. \u003ci\u003eAFRICOBRA \u003c\/i\u003ejoins a growing body of literature on art making outside New York; it will allow a plethora of new chronicles to be written.” -- Kellie Jones, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\"AFRICOBRA is a timely book as part of a movement that remains current as many art organizations are assessing their complicity in the suppression and appropriation of Black voices. This book will be of interest to scholars of African American art history and American art history in general.\" -- Laura Haynes * ARLIS\/NA *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lavishly illustrated with images of works by the Jarrells and AfriCOBRA colleagues including his wife, Donaldson, Jones-Hogu, and Nelson Stevens, the book describes the formation of the collective and its first three major exhibitions.\" -- Steven Litt * The Plain Dealer *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAFRICOBRA\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary source for the study of the Black Arts Movement.... Across poetics, analytical prose, art, and archive, Jarrell argues for revisionist readings that challenge standing interpretations of AFRICOBRA as well as the contemporary collective, AFRICOBRA Now.” -- Melanee C. Harvey * CAA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  x\u003cbr\u003e Black Art and the Black Aesthetic  xv\u003cbr\u003e AFRICOBRA: Principles and Philosophy  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Foreword \/ Richard Allen May III  xxi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xxv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Black in Chicago  19\u003cbr\u003e Genesis  41\u003cbr\u003e The Wall of Respect  49\u003cbr\u003e The Inception  75\u003cbr\u003e A Visual Art Proposal  91\u003cbr\u003e First Cobra Exhibition  109\u003cbr\u003e Recruitment  119\u003cbr\u003e AFRICOBRA I  129\u003cbr\u003e AFRICOBRA II  171\u003cbr\u003e AFRICOBRA III  209\u003cbr\u003e Postscript \/ Edmund Barry Gaither  241\u003cbr\u003e Exhibitions  247\u003cbr\u003e Reviews and Media Interviews  249\u003cbr\u003e AFRICOBRA in Art Collections  251\u003cbr\u003e AFRICOBRA in Books  253\u003cbr\u003e Notes  255\u003cbr\u003e Artist Biographies  263\u003cbr\u003e Index  271","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408968491351,"sku":"9781478000563","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000563.jpg?v=1730504902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/africobra-9781478000563","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}