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VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing

VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing
VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing
VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing
VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing

VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing
The first edition of this highly important, self-published collection of essays by Tom Lloyd, Amiri Baraka, Bing Davis, Melvin Dixon, Jeff Donaldson, Ray Elkins, Babatunde Folayemi, Francis and Val Gray Ward, and Robert Doty. On of the most coveted publications for serious collectors of African American art history. This title was recently reprinted and widely distributed, but on offer here is a first edition copy in near fine condition with only the slightest soiling and rubbing on the covers. The booklet was clearly designed by pasting up typed pages, thus resulting in some of the text blocks being askew.

As well, the cover design, using the red, black and green of the Pan-African flag, is a bit askew, per the original printing and trimming. From a presumably very small edition. I provided an image of this very cover for use in the recent Soul of a Nation Reader, a compendium of essays by and about Black artists working during the 1960s and 1970s during the Black Arts Movement period, which was edited by Mark Godfrey, the former Tate Modern curator who, along with Zoe Whitley, curated the seminal exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power that toured the U.


VERY RARE Black Art Notes, 1971, AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 1ST ED. Private Printing