Double Consciousness explores the conceptual art practices of African-American artists over the past 35 years, using as its underpinning, the "reflexive" nature of art-making which emerged with the avant-garde of the late 1960s. The exhibition chronicles conceptual art as practice of ideas as manifested through the use of everyday materials and objects--performance as action; interventions or critiques; as well as writings.

Director's Foreword and Acknowtedgments MartiMayo

Lenders to the Exhibition

Acknowledgments Valerie CasseI Oliver

An American Art 3ob Franklin Sirmans

Through the Conceptual Lens: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Blackness

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Catatogue of the Exhibition

Prates

Selected Writings by Artists in the Exhibition

Some Reminiscences and a Chronology Howardena Pindell

Kinds of Performing Objects I Have Been Adrian Piper

The Theater of Refusah Black Art and Mainstream Criticism Charles Gaines

Lilies of the Valley Unite! or not Lily Bea Moor

My B[ack Death ArthurJafa

Integrated Systems: Mobite Steatth Unit (Pink Noise) Series 002

Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand

Multiplex Consciousness Paul D. Miller

Chronology of Btack History and Eutture

and the Deve[opment of Black Conceptual Art compiled by Julia Chance

Artists' Biographies compiled by Kristin Flanagan

Selected Bibtiography

Index of Names