TY - BOOK ID - 101682323 TI - In the Black fantastic PY - 2022 SN - 026204725X 9780262047258 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Arts, Black KW - Black people in art KW - African American artists KW - Artists, Black KW - kunst KW - zwarte cultuur KW - zwarte identiteit KW - kunst en feminisme KW - afrofuturisme KW - twintigste eeuw KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - kolonialisme KW - postkolonialisme KW - kunst en muziek KW - afro-amerikaanse kunst KW - 7.038/039 KW - Black arts KW - Negro arts KW - Black artists KW - Negro artists KW - Afro-American artists KW - Artists, African American KW - Artists UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101682323 AB - In the Black Fantastic' assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. It brings to life the forces that shape Afrofuturism - the cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday of Black experience - and beyond, looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity - based as they are on the historical subjugation of people of colour - the book explores how Black artists are drawing inspiration from African-originated myth, knowledge systems and spiritual practices to confound the Western dichotomy between the real and unreal, the natural and the supernatural. With 250 illustrations spanning the spheres of photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, literature and architecture, this book reaches across time, space and art form, drawing together everything from works by leading visual artists such as Kara Walker, Chris Ofili and Lina Iris Viktor to groundbreaking films like Black Panther and Get Out and the radical politics of pan-Africanism. ER -