| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

"Point from which Creation Begins": The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis. By Benjamin Looker. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 2004. xxviii, 316 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-883982-51-0.)

This historical study examines the influential, local St. Louis, Missouri, black arts movement organization known as the Black Artists' Group (BAG), which was created in 1968 and lasted until 1972. Benjamin Looker develops seven chapters and an epilogue in his book on the BAG by acknowledging the historical importance of black music and the arts to St. Louis and the nation from the nineteenth century to the present. The focus of the study is on the 1960s and 1970s, when the BAG flourished in St. Louis as a strong cultural unit, related to national currents and efforts underway at that time in the black arts movement. The influence of the group was felt on both sides of the Mississippi River, especially in East St. Louis (with Eugene Redmond and Katherine Dunham) and in Brooklyn, Illinois. In St. Louis proper, the BAG was centered in the north side of the city, the area of the greatest concentration of the black population.

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