... printmaking welded metal sculpture Betye Saar Charles White Melvin Edwards ...

... black motherhood black reproduction self-possession Betye Saar Corregidora Jamaica Kincaid ...

... found object art Watts Rebellion Betye Saar John Outerbridge Noah Purifoy ...

... Harriet Tubman Blessed Anastacia Betye Saar Elizabeth Catlett Aunt Jemima mammy figure ...

... Chapter 1 looks at the groundbreaking art of Betye Saar, Charles White, and Melvin Edwards. Of interest is how their presence, activism, and artwork were catalytic forces in creating an art scene in Los Angeles and for African American artists from the late 1950s into the 1960s. Charles White...

... Chapter 2 traces the practices of installation and assemblage by John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Betye Saar. They all shared the aesthetics of reuse in their sculptural concatenations. Purifoy and Outterbridge embedded their artmaking in community engagement and urban public space...

... and this is a disjuncture artists highlight through fragmentation, sectioning off parts of black women’s bodies (and often their own) imagistically to mark the collective “parsing” out of black maternal capacities. This chapter utilizes imagery associated with black women’s conflicted maternity. It uses Betye Saar’s mixed...

... performance of collective protection. This chapter engages the reconstructions of the figure of mammy, using images by Betye Saar and Joe Overstreet. There is a need in a post 1960s moment of black recreation to reconcile the imagistic mammy with her assumed allegiance to white domesticity. Artists fit mammy...