SOUL OF A NATION

September 1983 Barkley L Hendricks; Brilliantly Endowed (Self-Portrait) 1977, oil and acrylic paint on canvas, 167.6 x 122.6 cm; Noah Purifoy; Untitled 1970. wood, leather, brass and copper, 124.5 « 71.1 « 47 cm; Carolyn Lawrence; Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free 1970s. acrylic paint on canvas. 124.5 x 129.5 cm; Wadsworth Jarrell; Revolutionary 1972. screenprint on paper. 86.4 x 67.3 cm Tate Modern Art in the Age of Black Power What did it mean to be a Black artist in the USA during the Civil Rights Movement and at the birth of Black Power? Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern's forthcoming exhibition, explores how American cultural identity was reshaped at a time of social unrest and political struggle, and looks at how these ideas played out among and beyond African American artists from 1963 to 1983. New York 1964 Jack Whitten (bl939) recounts how meeting with artists such as Norman Lewis and Willem de Kooning shaped his path as a painter I was the only Black student in my class at the Cooper Union Art School in 1960. The 1960s proved to be an extraordinary time for me: I met Romy Bearden, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Bill Haywood Rivers, Bill de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, the second-generation abstract expressionists, other young Black artists; all while still being a student at Cooper Union. Jack Whitten; Asia's Palace 1973. acrylic paint on canvas, 273.1 « 392.4 cm; Romare Bearden; Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism...