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...black enough, some of the best-known black artists in the U.S. began to resent the prospect of being shut in a purely black context, as if they were anthropological specimens. They pulled out. Among them were Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Joe Overstreet and Sam Gilliam. Says Johnson, who happens to be an abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion of race and aesthetics." He sought out Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General at the United Nations, who sympathized with them. Bunche went with...
...2/1/71, CLINTON C. GILLIAM, Registrar, UCB, advised his files indicate-was admitted to the University of California at Berkeley in the month of March, 1970, and as of the period ending December, 1970, had completed two quarters in the College of Letters and Science. Her chief subject of study is listed as-. Due to the policy at UCB, no additional information regarding the Subject can be released without the written release submitted by the Subject or the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum...
...intolerable position, it bolstered his emerging self-awareness as he marched on Selma and Washington. At the same time, it pricked the white's guilt feelings by chastening him for years of brutal apathy, then soothed his conscience with the balm of newfound empathy. Says Black Comic Stu Gilliam: "Until we marched in the streets, no one was interested in what the black man had to say. That's why we didn't have talking acts per se-only singing and dancing. Then black comedians became a link of communications. We had to be teachers and amateur...
Shaped and Draped. Those artists for whom the question of blackness seems irrelevant-they are probably the large majority-are busy establishing their own kind of individuality. Some have handsomely succeeded, and in an extraordinary diversity of styles. Take Sam Gilliam, who was born in Mississippi 37 years ago, took an M.A. from the University of Louisville, and now teaches at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore. His canvases are not so much shaped as draped-in drooping paint-spattered bunches, like clothes drying on a line. He had one on view in this year's Whitney Annual...
...deep in his shoulder socket that robbed his arm of its power and left him in agony after every throw. He spent five weeks on the disabled list and completed only one game in twelve starts. But he kept coming back to give it another try Said Coach Jim Gilliam: "He is as great a competitor as I've ever seen. He is a pitcher who never quits...