Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis

Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis

Editorial Reviews Book Description From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. Inspired by the reinvigorated black cultural nationalism of the 1960s, artistic collectives had sprung up around the country in a diffuse outgrowth known as the Black Arts Movement. These impulses resonated with BAG's founders, who sought to raise black consciousness and explore the far reaches of interdisciplinary performance-all while struggling to carve out a place within the context of St. Louis history and culture. By fusing social concern and artistic innovation, the group significantly reshaped the St. Louis and, by extension, the American arts landscape. From the Publisher Distributed for the Missouri Historical Society Press Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis

Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis,Benjamin Looker,Missouri Historical Society Press,1883982510,African American musicians,American - African-American,Black Artists' Group,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor,History - General,History and criticism,Jazz,Missouri,Saint Louis,Social Science,Sociology

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