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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." --

Leigh, Simone --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African American sculptors --- African American sculpture --- African American women artists --- African American artists --- Art, American --- Art, Modern --- Artists --- Sculpture, American --- Sculpture, Modern --- Sculpteurs noirs américains --- Sculpture noire américaine --- Femmes artistes noires américaines --- Artistes noirs américains --- Art américain --- Art --- Artistes --- Sculpture américaine --- Sculpture --- ART / General. --- 2000-2099 --- United States --- African American

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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human “software” has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

Philosophy --- Jewish religion --- Old English literature --- Literature --- History --- History of Europe --- cultuur --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Jodendom --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Peste noire --- Épidémies --- Minorités --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- Diseases and literature. --- Plague in literature. --- Epidemics in literature. --- Diseases in literature. --- Plague --- Epidemics --- Antisemitism. --- Violence. --- Aspect social --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire. --- Violence envers --- Crimes contre --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Judaism and culture. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- 20th century. --- 476-1492.