Black art and aesthetics : relationalities, interiorities, reckonings / edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roelofs.
Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphn...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 376 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm |
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Contents:
- Preface : Blackness, Whiteness, and Curatorial Care / Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) and Monique Roelofs (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- Introduction : Revalorizing Black Aesthetics / Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) and Monique Roelofs (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- PART I. Blackness as Aesthetic Strategy : Coloring History, Theory, and Painting / Meleko Mokgosi (Artist, Yale University, USA)
- From the new black and from semiautomatic / Evie Shockley (Poet and Theorist, Rutgers University, USA)
- Art and Negative Dialectics: On Soft Aesthetics / Angela Y. Davis (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
- Embracing Injury: Black Queer Bodies and Poetic Experimentation / GerShun Avilez (University of Maryland, USA)
- Afrodiasporic Aesthetics in Classical and Experimental Music After 1960 / George E. Lewis (Musician and Theorist, Columbia University, USA)
- PART II. Black Art Spaces : See Me Here: Defining Black Space at the Intersection of Artistic and Curatorial Practices in Privy / Deborah Goffe (Dancer and Theorist, Trinity College, USA)
- The Black Image Corporation: When History Isn't Enough. The Need for Corporate Practices Within the Archive / Theaster Gates (Artist, Chicago, USA)
- elevators / Simone White and Benjamin Krusling (Poets, University of Pennsylvania and New York City, USA)
- Aesthetic Form in the New Thing: Aesthetic Sociality of Musique Informelle / Fumi Okiji (Musician and Theorist, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- White by Design / Mabel O. Wilson (Architect and Theorist, Columbia University, USA)
- PART III. History Making : Swampy Land by the River Don / Nell Painter (Artist and Historian, Princeton University, USA)
- Addressing the World? Aesthetics of Resistance, Difference, and Relationality in Aimé Césaire's Plays / Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)
- Making Histories: Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli / Wangechi Mutu (Artist, New York City, USA); Isaac Julien (Filmmaker, London and UC Santa Cruz, USA); and Claudia Schmuckli (Curator, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA)
- Aliveness and Aesthetics / Kevin Quashie (Brown University, USA)
- Two Images: Fons Americanum and The Right Side / Kara Walker (Artist, New York City, USA)
- PART IV. Groundings, Transpositions, Breaks : From the black maria and from Kingdom Animalia / Aracelis Girmay (Poet, Stanford University, USA)
- Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law / Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Harvard University, USA)
- "Survival is not a theory": Afro-Pessimism Transposed /Paul C. Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Imitation of Life/A Box Full of Darkness / James B. Haile, III (University of Rhode Island, USA)
- PART V. Callings : Tracy K. Smith's Ordinary Life: Enfleshing a Theory of Post-Soul / Daphne Lamothe (Smith College, USA)
- From Citizen and from Don't Let Me Be Lonely / Claudia Rankine (Poet, New York University, USA)
- Dance On / Thomas F. DeFrantz (Dancer and Theorist, Northwestern University, USA)
- 'One-eyed' Immersive Particularities / Jeremy Matthew Glick (Hunter College, USA)
- On Black Speculative Musicalities / Vijay Iyer (Musician and Theorist, Harvard University, USA)