Edward George: Black Atlas

Multi-disciplinary artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive – a collection of more than 30,000 images that document representations of people of African descent in Western art from antiquity to the civil rights era – in his upcoming exhibition at the Warburn Institute. Launched in the 1960s by a pair of art collectors and philanthropists, the archive was created in response to the civil rights movement in the United States. This is the first time that images from the archive will be on display in the UK, and it will include photographs and films of artworks, including paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and decorative objects, as well as a new film by George, developed during his year-long residency at the Warburg.