Black Is A Color proposes an original history of contemporary art through the

practices of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s till

today.

Both a historical study and a critical analysis, this book paints a picture of an

America marked by its slave past, in which African American contemporary

artists have been able to build a remarkable and engaged body of work to

challenge the cultural and political consequences of racial discrimination.

By asserting in the White world the value of their Black visual culture, still

considered as secondary alongside their musical tradition, contemporary Black

artists make visible that invisibility. They accomplish it by developing an artistic

identity, represented through painting, sculpture, photography, video and

performance, where the place of the body, urban space and memory is analyzed.

This original reflection developed by Elvan Zabunyan in Black Is A Color gives

a non-stereotyped view of Black culture and underlines its aesthetic and political

reality in a contemporary artistic context where the radical questions on

postcolonial practices and theories can be established and exist.