Bibliography

This bibliography compiles books and essays referenced by curators in researching Now Dig This!, as well as other materials relevant to the exhibition's subject matter. Resources related to individual artists can be found on their artist pages.

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Boutoux, Thomas, Andre Lepecki, and Stephanie Rosenthal. Robin Rhode: Walk Off. Munich, Germany: Haus der Kunst Gallery, 2007.

Bowles, John P. Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2011.

Butler, Connie. "This Is Art—These People Are Artists: 'Pacific Standard Time,' Conceptual Art, and Other Momentous Events from a Local Point of View." Art Journal 71, no. 1 (2012): 88–105.

Campbell, Mary Schmidt, comp. Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1985.

Carpenter, Jane H., and Betye Saar. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art Volume II: Betye Saar. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2003.

Chapple, Reginald. "From Central Avenue to Leimert Park: The Shifting Center of Black Los Angeles." In Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities, 60–80. Edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Chassin Goldbaum, Karen, ed. Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment. Los Angeles: UCLA Press, 2006.

Chicago, Judy, and Miriam Schapiro. "A Feminist Art Program." Art Journal 31, no. 1 (Autumn 1971): 48–49.

Collins, Lisa, and Margo Crawford. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Collins, Lisa Gail. "Activists Who Yearn for Art That Transforms: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements in the United States." Signs 31, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 717–52.

———. The Art of History: African-American Women Artists Engage the Past. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Collins, Patricia Hill. "Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination." In Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 221–38. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Conrad, David. "Community Murals as Democratic Art and Education." Journal of Aesthetic Education 29, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 98–102.

Cooks, Bridget R. "Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind (1969)." American Studies 48, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 5–39.

Cottingham, Laura. Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art. Australia: G+B Arts International, 2000.

Driskell, David C. Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.

Ellegood, Anne, and Douglas Fogle. All of This and Nothing. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum and New York: DelMonico Books, 2011.

Frascina, Francis. "'There' and 'Here,' 'Then' and 'Now': The Los Angeles Artists' Tower of Protest (1966) and Its Legacy." In Art, Politics, and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America, 57–99. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press: 1990.

Gaines, Malik. "City After Fifty Years' Living: L.A.'s Differences in Relation." Art Journal 71, no. 1 (2012): 88–105.

Golden, Thelma. "Post…" In Freestyle. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001.

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Goldman, Shifra M. "A Public Voice: Fifteen Years of Chicano Posters." Art Journal 44, no. 1 (Spring 1984): 50–57.

Goldstein, Abby. "Profiles and Positions Sheila Levrant de Bretteville." BOMB, no. 77 (Fall 2001): 26.

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Hunt, Darnell, and Ana-Christina Ramon, eds. Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

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Lark, Raymond. "Drawings and Paintings by an Afro-American Artist." Leonardo 15, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 7–12.

Lawrence, Novotny. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre. Studies in African American History and Culture series. New York: Routledge, 2008.

LeFalle-Collins, Lizzetta. Noah Purifoy: Outside and in the Open. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum Foundation, 1997.

———. "Planting a Seed: The Brockman Gallery and the Village." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 30 (Spring 2012): 4–15.

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Perchuk, Andrew, Thomas Crow, and Howard Singerman. "Pacific Standard Time: A Preliminary Conversation." Art Journal 71, no. 1 (2012): 8–37.

Perrin, Deborah, ed. Selections from the Naomi Feldman Collection: Los Angeles Art 1962–1988. California: Feldman-Horn Center for the Arts, 1998.

Peter, Carolyn, and Damon Willick. "Gallery 32 and Los Angeles's African American Arts Community." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 30 (Spring 2012): 16–26.

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Springer, Julie. "Reviewed Works: Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History by Amelia Jones; Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist by Judy Chicago." Woman's Art Journal 20, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 52–54.

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———. "New Visions, New Viewers, New Vehicles: Twentieth-Century Developments in North American Political Art." Leonardo 26, no. 5 (1993): 459–66.

———. "Recovering the Rubble: African American Assemblage Art in Los Angeles." Journal of Pan African Studies 4, no. 5 (September 2011).

———. "A Visual Critique of Racism: African American Art from Southern California." Tikkun 28, no. 2 (Spring 2013).

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Widener, Daniel. Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010.

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———. "Redefining Black Theatre." The Black Scholar 10, no. 10 (1979): 32–42.