We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 : A Sourcebook

One of two publications from the landmark Brooklyn Museum exhibit, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85”. This book is a sourcebook of historical writings from key leaders from the period. Many writings are reproduced as color facsimiles of from original letters, magazine articles, exhibition catalogs, manifestos, and other publications. Also includes interviews and additional texts of analysis.

Cover has very minor wear, including small crease at corner. Pages appear to be clean and crisp. Very good ++ condition.

“A landmark exhibition on display at the Brooklyn Museum from April 21 through September 17, 2017, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It showcases the work of black women artists such as Emma Amos, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, making it one of the first major exhibitions to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color. In so doing, it reorients conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.

The accompanying Sourcebook republishes an array of rare and little-known documents from the period by artists, writers, cultural critics, and art historians such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Greg Tate, Craig Dennis Street, Linda Goode Bryant, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Lucy R. Lippard, Mary Ann Weathers, Jeanne Siegal, Audre Lorde, Lorna Simpson, Toni Morrison, Lowery Stokes Sims, Alice Walker, and Michelle Wallace, and many key artists collectives. These documents include articles, manifestos, and letters from significant publications as well as interviews, some of which are reproduced in facsimile form. The Sourcebook also includes archival materials, rare ephemera, and an art-historical overview essay. Helping readers to move beyond standard narratives of art history and feminism, this volume will ignite further scholarship while showing the true breadth and diversity of black women’s engagement with art, the art world, and politics from the 1960s to the 1980s.” - from the publisher

7.9 x 10.5 inches