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Author : Zingisa Nkosinkulu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Aesthetics, Black
ISBN : 9781668487167
"The essays in this book depart from Fanon's prayer to understand decolonial aestheSis as Black Consciousness"--
Author : Nkosinkulu, Zingisa
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1668487179
Decolonial aesthetics of Blackness in contemporary art challenge and redefine traditional narratives, offering a profound critique of historical and ongoing injustices. This approach emphasizes the reclamation and celebration of Black cultural identities through innovative artistic expressions that resist colonialist frameworks and oppressive stereotypes. By emphasizing the experiences and perspectives of Black artists, decolonial aesthetics challenge the power structures presented in art history and highlight the significance of autonomy, representation, and authenticity. To advance this dialogue, it is crucial to support and engage with Black artists and their work, ensuring that their voices are amplified, and their contributions are recognized within art discourse. Decolonial Aesthetics of Blackness in Contemporary Art focuses on the generative audio and visual inscription of blackness as an offering of life and beauty in contemporary art. It discusses the concept of blackness related to modernity, decolonial aesthetics, and ontology of black life and beauty. This book covers topics such as decolonization, visual art, and sociology, and is a useful resource for art historians, visual artists, sociologists, academicians, scientists, and researchers.
Author : Michaela Ott
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3662658992
The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics' within an Afro-European framework. The texts (whose authors come from different cultural contexts between Germany, France, Senegal, Benin, Nigeria and Tunesia) do not only refer to heterogenous aesthetic practices understood as subversive and decolonial strategies, but also discuss philosophical questions of a renewed (non-in)dividual humanism. The artistic practices analyzed include artistic installations and ensembles as well as actions in urban and rural space, deceptive manœuvres at the borders and their photographic documentation, and many more.
Author : Patrick Oloko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3662662221
This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from African and Latin American countries on highly diverse aesthetic phenomena as seen from their own different points of view. The texts in this volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies for the (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories and aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived within national consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical performances from the East African region are analysed as intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean and its different languages. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives. Within the German context, decolonisation strategies in exhibition practices in ethnological or art museums developed by Nigerian artists are evaluated; new terms such as ‘dividuation’ are proposed to describe these contemporary composite-cultural entanglements, and so on. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of contemporary interwoven world cultures!
Author : Juan G. Ramos
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781683400240
Sensing otherwise -- The poetics of sensing: decolonial verses in antipoetry and conversational poetry -- Decolonial sounds: redolent echoes of nueva canción -- Decolonial visuality and new Latin American cinema -- Decolonial aesthetics in Latin America -- Conclusion: Sensing the irresolute past in the present
Author : Eddie Chambers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0857736086
Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these artists were regarded and embraced as practitioners of note. At other times they faced challenges of visibility - and in response they collaborated and made their own exhibitions and gallery spaces. In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of these artists from the 1950s onwards, including recent developments and successes. Black Artists in British Art makes a major contribution to British art history. Beginning with discussions of the pioneering generation of artists such as Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, Chambers candidly discusses the problems and progression of several generations, including contemporary artists such as Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare. Meticulously researched, this important book tells the fascinating story of practitioners who have frequently been overlooked in the dominant history of twentieth-century British art.
Author : Tiffany E. Barber
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN :
"Undesirability and the Value of Blackness in Contemporary Art centers on representations of nausea inducing, dismembered, perverse black female bodies in recent sculpture, collage, photography, and performance art by Kara Walker, Wangechi Mutu, Xaviera Simmons, and Narcissister. In response to art establishment and lay public expectations that black artists address their work to slavery and its legacies in order to effect racial healing and empowerment, these artists instead force a distinction between black women's creative labors and art's capacity to mitigate historical trauma. Under slavery, Africans were uprooted and subjected to forms of terror that uniquely mark blackness as abject, from cultural dispossession and sexual violence to branding and maiming. Additionally, black bodies were considered nonhuman objects lacking cognitive and affective faculties, ideas reinforced by Jim Crow laws and arguably by present-day anti-black violence. Hence, recovering a lost, traumatic past - slavery - and turning it into something affirmative has preoccupied black artists and thinkers since Emancipation. This fidelity often resulted in innocuous yet well-meaning representations of blackness. Today, black artists and critics question this widely adopted interpretive paradigm, disclaiming a so-called "proper" relation between black artists and their art. Despite this shift, critics and art historians insist on assigning contemporary black artistic production a redemptive function. This is partly because of the affirmative ethics at the heart of black aesthetic discourse, spurred by restorative justice projects and struggles for freedom in the civil rights era. The post-civil rights, twenty-first century artworks I examine, however, defy long-held aesthetic philosophies and social norms about what constitutes "beauty," "pleasure," and the political value of blackness. Contrary to healing racial wounds, insisting on visibility and inclusion, or producing children, the procreative act in the hands of Walker, Mutu, Simmons, and Narcissister holds open the gaps - of the past, of identity, of difference - to revel in a certain lack of mastery, power, and knowing the way forward. Undesirability thus serves as a powerful lens onto blackness and its visualization with implications that go beyond the field of contemporary art. It occasions a radical engagement with art and social life equal to the challenges of our time." -- leaves x-xi
Author : Pamela A. Mullins
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1839989378
This book will explore several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939. Drawing from primary source materials and various scholarship in the field (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, museum studied, art history, cultural studies), the book provides an analysis of the threads of white supremacy which run through early scholarship and understandings of Black African object within the United States and how scholars use the objects to reinforce narratives of “primitive” Black Africa and civilized, advanced white Europe and the United States.
Author : Nana Adusei-Poku
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 3839452945
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.
Author : Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 1990
Category : African American aesthetics
ISBN :
An examination of African American art.