Holmes, Doloris Black Emergency Cultural Coalition

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United States9 Pages, TranscriptTranscript available on the Archives of American Art website.Interview of Cliff Joseph conducted in 1972, by Doloris Holmes, for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project. Joseph discusses the formation of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which he co-chaired, in response to a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called "Harlem on My Mind." He talks about the impact of the black experience in art, his own art, and his affiliation with social protest artists. He describes the Coalition's attempts to persuade the Whitney to produce a show of black artists with a black curator.Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Cliff Joseph, 1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/joseph72.htmItem is a transcript.Location of original tape unknown.Cliff Joseph (1922-) was a painter and educator in New York, New York.English .This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. Funding for the interview was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, as part of AAA's "Art World in Turmoil" project.Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

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