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Emory Douglas

Emory Douglas (Born 1943) is active/lives in California.  Emory Douglas is known for Black Panther newspaper art, political theme illustration.

Asserting that "all art is political and valuing real-life action and change above all else" Emory Douglas provided the visual branding image to the Black Panther Party beginning 1967, the year after the organizations' founding, until 1985. During this period, Douglas used his illustration skills with pen and ink "chunky black lines", airbrush, paper, collage and gouache to raise consciousness about Blacks in America and to give a sense of humanity and empowerment "to those customarily portrayed as social pariahs"---to turn ordinary people into heroic images.

Always, his work was directed to ghetto residents, and was some of the first visual art in America FOR Black Americans rather than about Black Americans. Douglas and the Black Panthers are credited with stirring forces that likely was "the first time in U.S. history that blacks broadcast their intention to fight back against those who sought to exploit them." Their crusade was for freedom to determine own destiny, full empl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3116 characters.]  Artist bio

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