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Melvin Edwards in Conversation with Manthia Diawara and Lydie Diakhaté
- Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
- Duke University Press
- Number 30, Spring 2012
- pp. 114-129
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Melvin Edwards is a pioneer in the history of contemporary African American art and sculpture. This interview relates his career as a black inter-nationalist, a pan-Africanist, and a prime witness to modernist innovations in the New York scene, from the era of abstract expressionism to the current waves of conceptual art.