Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.
"More than a study of African American engagement with modernist
aesthetics, Darby English's 1971: A Year in the Life of
Color is an intelligent and provocative call for the necessity
of abstraction, idiosyncrasy, and unexpected forms of rebellion in
the production of art and the development of cultural studies.
English crosses the most sacrosanct ideological boundaries as he
argues for the necessity of untamed and previously unimagined forms
of creativity."--Robert F. Reid-Pharr, CUNY Graduate Center
"1971: A Year in the Life of Color is a powerful, polemical,
and much-needed work. It forces us to rethink the terms of politics
and abstraction, African American art, representation, and
modernism in a way that is at once historically rigorous and
theoretically expansive, no small thing indeed."--Pamela M. Lee,
Stanford University
"What is more urgently demanded, for current art and its histories,
than the rethinking of how activism, identity, and art interact?
Perhaps only an understanding of the particular complexity of black
American identity, which in 1971: A Year in the Life of
Color reveals a radical oppositionality within modernism that
many had already given up on. Profoundly lucid, intensely felt,
archivally deep, and utterly persuasive, English's book reorients
our understanding of both that time and our own."--Rachel Haidu,
University of Rochester
"1971 clears space for art historians, curators, and
cultural producers to complicate black artists' participation in
modernism as a multicultural process, not as a separate or
oppositional endeavor. . . . [This book] captures quite concretely
a shared moment in the art world when color defied any singular
narrative."--Hyperallergic
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