Black Artists in British Art is written by Eddie Chambers, one of the members of the ‘Blk Art Group’.
The book gives information about that movement in the 80’s in GB.
About:
The Blk Art Group were art students who between 1981 and 1984 made what they named “radical black art”, organised exhibitions of that work and gathered other students and artists to discuss its form, function and future. The group’s line up and even its name changedover time but several members: Eddie Chambers, Claudette Johnson, Keith Piper, Donald Rodney and Marlene Smith played a consistentand influential role in its birth and evolution.The Blk Art Group are referenced today as a key contributor to what has come to be known as “the black arts movement” of 1980s Britain.Their work raised the profile of black artists, who up until then had received little attention. In their wake the art establishment had to ask itself whether it was excluding black artists and audiences and whether it had been doing so for some years. A series of high profile exhibitions of black artists work would follow.
Eddy Chambers, How much longer, 1984.
