| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, portraits |
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Image ; volume 180 |
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Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 180.
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| Contents |
I. Introduction -- II. Destabilizing meaning -- 1. The textures of history -- 2. What is the script of your time? -- 3. Economies of the Double-bind -- III. Historical entanglements of Black revolutionary women -- 1. De-interpellating interpellation-visual disobediences -- 2. How do I look? (very good, I must say I am amazed!) -- 3. O my body, will always remain in question!- Reviewing the Fanonian moment -- IV. Heterotemporality as a way of understanding the contemporary -- 1. Reclaiming our time -- 2. Riffs on real time and the present that is fleeting though captured -- 3. Rewind selecta -- 4. Hetero-temporality -- V. Paradox synchronicities -- 1. Contextualization -- 2. IWHISHIWAS or WISHIWASHI? -- 3. From Leitkultur to Leightkultur -- VI. Abstract facts -- 1. Enter and exit the new Negro -- 2. Enter and exit the new Negro-from invisible visibilities -- 3. Enter the new Negro -- 4. Ambiguity as chance-abstraction as means of identity -- VII. Post-Post-black -- VIII. Bibliography |
| Summary |
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas - and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz |
| Analysis |
African American |
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Art |
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Black Diaspora Art |
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Black German |
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Critical Race Art History |
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Cultural Studies |
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Fine Arts |
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Gender Studies |
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Gender |
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Postcolonialism |
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Theory of Art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-215) |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021) |
| Subject |
Art, Black.
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Black people in art.
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Black people -- Race identity
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Art, Modern -- 21st century.
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ART -- Criticism.
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ART / Criticism & Theory
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Art, Black
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Art, Modern
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Black people in art
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Black people -- Race identity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3839452945 |
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9783839452943 |
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