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The Post-Soul Cinema of Kasi Lemmons
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ISBN: 9783031128707 9783031128691 9783031128714 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"With her debut as a filmmaker, Lemmons' Eve's Bayou was both miracle and miraculous. The same can be said of this richly deserved, thorough and scholarly examination of her first five films." — Angela Bassett, Actor/Filmmaker. "This is a solid volume focusing on the work of Kasi Lemmons. This volume should have a very long shelf-life as it has not been embarked upon before by any researcher. Professor Wynter has taken up this mantle because she has recognized there is a dearth in scholarship pertaining to the work of Kasi Lemmons that is most deserving given the filmmaker’s body of esteemed work." —R. Dianne Bartlow, PhD Author, Altruism and African-American Women in Contemporary Popular Music. In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema—an oeuvre of quality, of note, of international recognition—will get the full film-studies treatment. This collection offers the first scholarly examination of Lemmons’ films through various frameworks of film theory, illuminating her highly personal, unique, and rare vision. In Lemmons’ worldview, the spiritual and the supernatural manifest in the natural, corporeal world. She subtly infuses her work with such images and narratives, owning her formalism, her modernist aesthetic, her cinematic preoccupations and her ontological leanings on race. Lemmons holds the varied experiences of African-American life before her lens—the ambitious bourgeoise, the spiritually lost, the ill and discarded, and the historically erased—and commits to capturing the nuances and differentiations, rather than perpetuating essentialized portrayals. This collection delves into Lemmons’ iconoclastic drive and post-soul aesthetic as emanations of her attitudes toward personal agency, social agency, and social justice. Dianah Wynter is a Full Professor at California State University Northridge, USA, where she teaches Women Filmmakers, Directing, and Film as Literature. An Emmy-nominated director, she holds MFAs from the Yale School of Drama and the American Film Institute. Her publications include Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen. .


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Kara Walker : MCMXCIX
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ISBN: 9789491843990 9491843990 Year: 2017 Volume: 304 Publisher: [Arnhem] Roma Publications

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Kara Walker began this sketchbook in Munich in 1999, when she was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of work came out of this particular book, including the installation ?Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)?, which is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. However, that is an exception to the rule. For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters.


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We wanted a revolution : black radical women, 1965-85 : a sourcebook
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ISBN: 9780872731837 Year: 2017 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Museum.

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"Focusing on the work of black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color--distinct from the primarily white, middle-class mainstream feminist movement--in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period. Presenting a diverse group of artists and activists who lived and worked at the intersections of avant-garde art worlds, radical political movements, and profound social change, the exhibition features a wide array of work, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art, as well as photography, painting, sculpture, and printmaking."--Brooklyn Museum website, viewed April 11, 2017.

Crossing borders through folklore : African American women's fiction and art
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ISBN: 0826260098 9780826260093 0826211992 9780826211996 Year: 1999 Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press,

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Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades.&#13;&#13;As a dynamic, open-ended process, folklore historically has enabled African-descended people to establish differential identity, resist dominance, and affirm group solidarity. This book documents the use of expressive forms of folklore in the fiction of Morrison and Marshall and the use of material forms of folklore in the visual representations of Ringgold and Saar. Offering a conceptual paradigm of a folk aesthetic to designate the practices these women use to revise and reverse meanings—especially meanings imposed on images such as Aunt Jemima and Sambo—Crossing Borders through Folklore explains how these artists locate sites of intervention and reconnection. From these sites, in keeping with the descriptive and prescriptive formulations for art during the sixties, Morrison, Marshall, Ringgold, and Saar articulate new dimensions of consciousness and creatively theorize identity.&#13;&#13;Crossing Borders through Folklore is a significant and creative contribution to scholarship in both established and still- emerging fields. This volume also demonstrates how recent theorizing across scholarly disciplines has created elastic metaphors that can be used to clarify a number of issues. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies.


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Pleasure activism : the politics of feeling good
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ISBN: 9781849353267 Year: 2019 Publisher: Chico Edinburgh AK Press

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How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls &;pleasure activism,&; a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects; from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs&;building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!


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Simone Leigh
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ISBN: 9781636810782 1636810780 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boston New York New York, NY Institute of Contemporary Art/ & DelMonico Books available through ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

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"The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora. Over the past two decades, Simone Leigh has created artwork that situates questions of Black femme-identified subjectivity at the center of contemporary art discourse. Her sculpture, video, installation and social practice explore ideas of race, beauty and community in visual and material culture. Leigh's art addresses a wide swath of historical periods, geographies and traditions, with specific references to materials across the African diaspora, as well as forms traditionally associated with African art and architecture. This publication includes substantial new scholarship addressing Leigh's work across mediums and topics. The volume, timed with a major exhibition and national tour of the artist's work, includes contributions by her longtime collaborators, new scholars who add diverse insights and perspectives, and a conversation highlighting Leigh's voice. Additionally, generous and lushly illustrated plates feature her critically acclaimed work for the 59th Venice Biennale and works made throughout her 20-year career. A special section featuring Leigh's research images gives access to Leigh's research methodologies and encourages readers to fully engage with all aspects of Leigh's work. This monograph provides a timely opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of the complex and profoundly moving work of this groundbreaking artist."


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Adrian Piper : a reader.
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ISBN: 9781633450332 1633450333 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York The Museum of Modern Art

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"Published for MoMA's retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper's practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed. Focused texts by established and emerging scholars assess themes in Piper's work such as the Kantian framework that draws on her extensive philosophical studies; her unique contribution to first-generation conceptual art; the turning point in her work, in the early 1970s, from conceptual works to performance; the connection of her work with her yoga practice; her ongoing exposure of and challenge to xenophobia and sexism; and the relation between prevailing interpretations of her work and the viewers who engender them". Artbook& website (viewed on May 4, 2018)

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conceptual artists --- Piper, Adrian --- philosophy --- performance art --- mixed media works --- identity --- typescripts --- art criticism --- gelatin silver prints --- photography [process] --- Conceptual --- stats [copies] --- video art --- painting [image-making] --- Art --- ethnicity --- Piper, Adrian, --- African American women artists --- Conceptual art --- Performance art --- Interactive art --- kunst --- 7.071 PIPER --- racisme --- gender studies --- performance --- performances --- yoga --- concept art --- conceptuele kunst --- kunsttheorie --- filosofie --- Verenigde Staten --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Performing arts --- Afro-American women artists --- Women artists, African American --- Women artists --- Participatory art --- Social practice (Art) --- Piper, Adrian M. S., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 700.6 --- performancekunst --- ostracisme --- sociale uitsluitingsmechanismen --- gender --- 705.9 --- genderexpressie --- Kant, Immanuel --- Kantiaans --- beeldende kunst, filosofie, esthetiek en kritiek der beeldende kunst --- kunstgeschiedenis, 21e eeuw --- #breakthecanon --- 7.07 --- Vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Filosofie ; Immanuel Kant --- Kunst en racisme --- Conceptuele kunst --- Thema's in de kunst ; ras ; gender ; geslacht --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Piper, Adrian, - 1948 --- -African American women artists --- -Piper, Adrian, - 1948 --- -Art


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Lubaina Himid
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ISBN: 9783960984726 3960984723 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Koenig Books

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"This is the first extensive monograph on the work of British artist and Turner Prize winner, Lubaina Himid. Including the artist's own writing from the 1990s to the present day, alongside archival images, and documentation from recent exhibitions and projects." One of the pioneers of the British Black Arts Movement, Lubaina Himid first came to prominence in the 1980s when she began organising exhibitions of work by her peers, whom she felt were under-represented in the contemporary art scene. Himid's work challenges the stereotypical depictions of black figures in art history, foregrounding the contribution of the African diaspora to Western culture. 'Invisible Strategies' brings together a wide range of Himid's paintings from the 1980s to the present day, as well as sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper. The exhibition opens with Himid's monumental Freedom and Change, 1984, which appropriates and transforms the female figures from Picasso's 'Two Women Running on the Beach' ('The Race'), 1922, into black women, powerfully and humorously subverting one of the most canonical paintings in Western art history.


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Adrian Piper : a synthesis of intuitions, 1965-2016
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ISBN: 9781633450493 163345049X Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Museum of Modern Art, New York

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"Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today. Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date, this catalog presents more than 280 artworks that encompass the full range of Piper's mediums: works on paper, video, multimedia installation, performance, painting, sound and photo-texts. Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being - her subversive masculine alter-ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art. Previously unpublished texts by the artist lay out significant events in her personal history and her deeply felt ideas about the relationship between viewer and art object. This publication expands our understanding of the conceptual and post-conceptual art movements and Piper's pivotal position among her peers and for later generations."--

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Piper, Adrian --- conceptual artists --- video art --- identity --- Post-Conceptual --- dolls --- philosophy --- mixed media --- photography [process] --- Art --- drugs --- performance art --- race [group of people] --- ethnic groups --- newspapers --- gelatin silver prints --- typescripts --- Conceptual --- drawings [visual works] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- ART / General. --- African American women artists --- African American women artists. --- Art and Design. --- Art and philosophy --- Art and philosophy. --- Art, Modern --- Art, Modern. --- Conceptual art --- Conceptual art. --- Ethnicity in art --- Ethnicity in art. --- Identity (Psychology) in art --- Identity (Psychology) in art. --- Other (Philosophy) in art --- Other (Philosophy) in art. --- Race in art --- Race in art. --- Self (Philosophy) in art --- Self (Philosophy) in art. --- Themes, motives. --- Words in art --- Words in art. --- Piper, Adrian, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1900-2099. --- New York (State). --- United States. --- Kunst --- kranten --- typoscripten --- tekeningen --- fotografie --- filosofie --- videokunst [kunstwerken] --- Post-Conceptueel --- performances [live] --- gelatinezilverdrukken --- gemengde media --- schilderijen --- etnische groepen --- poppen --- ras [begrip] --- identiteit --- conceptueel --- dolls [figurines] --- #breakthecanon --- Femmes artistes --- Art conceptuel --- Art vidéo --- Installations (art) --- Art de performance --- Art multimédia. --- Exhibitions. --- kunst --- 7.071 PIPER --- racisme --- gender studies --- performance --- performances --- yoga --- concept art --- conceptuele kunst --- kunsttheorie --- Verenigde Staten --- Afro-American women artists --- Women artists, African American --- Women artists --- Philosophy and art --- Philosophy --- Art, Conceptual --- Concept art --- Language art (Fine arts) --- Possible art --- Post-object art --- Performance art --- Earthworks (Art) --- Sky art --- Piper, Adrian M. S., --- Exhibitions --- 705.9 --- gender --- genderexpressie --- performancekunst --- ostracisme --- sociale uitsluitingsmechanismen --- tentoonstellingscatalogus --- MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) --- kunstgeschiedenis, 21e eeuw --- paintings [visual works]

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