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I've seen the wall : Louis Armstrong auf Tour in der DDR 1965 = I've seen the wall : Louis Armstrong on tour in the GDR 1965

Title
I've seen the wall : Louis Armstrong auf Tour in der DDR 1965 = I've seen the wall : Louis Armstrong on tour in the GDR 1965 / Kuratiert von Paola Malavassi & Jason Moran = curated by Paola Malavassi & Jason Moran.
Publication
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2023.

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Additional Authors
  • Malavassi, Paola
  • Moran, Jason
  • Das Minsk (Art museum), host institution.
Description
206 pages : many illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm.
Summary
In the midst of the Cold War, legendary African American jazz musician Louis Armstrong was the first US artist to tour through the GDR. Taking this historic event in 1965 as a starting point, DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam examines the ambivalence of this official invitation against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the Vietnam War, and the Iron Curtain in Europe. While Armstrong avoided expressing forthright political opinions during his tour, he played '(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue', a composition he had not played in a decade, at every performance. Paintings, photographs, archival material, and installations by Terry Adkins, Louis Armstrong, Pina Bausch, Romare Bearden, Peter Brötzmann, Darol Olu Kae, Volkhard Kühl, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Jason Moran, Gordon Parks, Dan Perjovschi, Adrian Piper, Evelyn Richter, Lorna Simpson, Willi Sitte, Wadada Leo Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Andy Warhol, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, and others provide multiple perspectives on the complexity of politics, jazz music, and racism. Exhibition: DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, Germany (16.09.2023 - 04.02.2024).
Series Statement
DAS MINSK ; issue 03
Alternative Title
  • Louis Armstrong auf Tour in der DDR 1965
  • Louis Armstrong on tour in the GDR 1965
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • At head of title: Das Minsk, Kunsthaus in Potsdam.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in English and German.
Exhibitions (note)
  • On the occasion of an exhibition held at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, September 16, 2023 - February 4, 2024.
Call Number
JMF 24-198
ISBN
  • 9783775755993
  • 3775755993
LCCN
9783775755993
OCLC
1425865800
Title
I've seen the wall : Louis Armstrong auf Tour in der DDR 1965 = I've seen the wall : Louis Armstrong on tour in the GDR 1965 / Kuratiert von Paola Malavassi & Jason Moran = curated by Paola Malavassi & Jason Moran.
Publisher
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, 2023.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
DAS MINSK ; issue 03
Language
Parallel texts in English and German.
Exhibitions
On the occasion of an exhibition held at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, September 16, 2023 - February 4, 2024.
Added Author
Malavassi, Paola, curator.
Moran, Jason, curator.
Das Minsk (Art museum), host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9783775755993
Research Call Number
JMF 24-198
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