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A Winner

Lev T. Mills

Contemporary Art

This image features poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), who changed his name from LeRoi Jones in 1965 following the assassination of Malcolm X. For Baraka, along with many other Black artists, the late 1960s marked a turning point in his life, and he subsequently dedicated himself to the pursuit of a political Black aesthetic that might lead to liberation for Black people, and eventually for the Third World in general. He is widely regarded as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, called the “artistic” wing of the Black Power Movement.
MEDIUM Screenprint on paper
DATES 1972
DIMENSIONS Image: 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.7 cm)  (show scale)
SIGNATURE Signed in pencil
INSCRIPTIONS Dated and titled in pencil; numbered "16/50" in pencil
COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 2012.80.33
CREDIT LINE Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Lev T. Mills (American, born 1940). A Winner, 1972. Screenprint on paper, Image: 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.33. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2012.80.33_PS4.jpg)
EDITION 16/50
IMAGE overall, 2012.80.33_PS4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
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