Black art
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Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background.
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Black art (art nègre) can refer to:
- Art forms by persons of African descent (related articles: African art, African literature, African film, African American studies, African American art, African American literature, African American film, BLK Art Group Caribbean art, Caribbean literature, Caribbean film etc.)
- specifically to the American, Australasian or European Black Arts Movement.
- Magic
- from the 1400s through the victorian era, typesetting was referred to as the "black art".
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