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Black womanhood : images, icons, and ideologies of the African body
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ISBN: 9780295987705 9780295987712 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press,

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Douglas Camp, Sokari ; Mntambo, Nandipha ; Siopis, Penny ; Sulter, Maud ; Odundo, Magdalena ; Dimma Poulsen, Etiyé ; Guebehi, Emile ; Cox, Renée ; Musa, Hassan ; Mutu, Wangechi ; Saar, Alison ; Sidibé, Malick ; Essamba, Angèle Etoundi ; Ingridmwangiroberthutter ; Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena ; Scott, Joyce ; Walker, Kara Elizabeth ; Sheikh, Fazal ; Muholi, Zanele ; Searle, Berni ; Essaydi, Lalla ; Weems, Carrie Mae


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Taking stakes in the unknown : tracing post-black art
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ISBN: 9783837652949 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld : Transcript,

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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.


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The time is always now : artists reframe the Black figure
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ISBN: 9781855145580 1855145588 Year: 2024 Publisher: London : National Portrait Gallery Publications,

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"'The Time is Always Now' assembles contemporary African diasporic artists working in the UK and US whose practice foregrounds the Black figure. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, this publication explores and celebrates contemporary Black artists internationally who work within Black figuration. This visual book examines contemporary figurative artworks against a backdrop of heightened cultural visibility. Within this context, its collected paintings, drawings and sculptures take on a dual role as the accomplished work of individual artists and as a collective assertion of Black presence" -- page [4] of cover.


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Reframing the Black figure : an introduction to contemporary Black figuration
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ISBN: 9781855145481 1855145480 Year: 2024 Publisher: London : National Portrait Gallery Publications,

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'Reframing the Black Figure' showcases more than 20 Black figurative artists working in the UK and US today. This book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting a selection of key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. It is illustrated with artworks and visual details, alongside short biographies for all featured artists.


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La rébellion du deuxième sexe : l'histoire de l'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
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ISBN: 9782840663553 2840663554 Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris: Presses du réel,

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Quarante années de théories féministes anglo-américaines en histoire de l'art, des écrits de Lucy Lippard aux problématiques spécifiques aux artistes afro-américaines, aux développements postféministes et aux questions queer, en passant par les approches marxistes de la production artistique.


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L'art et la race : l'Africain (tout) contre l'oeil des Lumières
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ISBN: 9782378960162 2378960166 Year: 2019 Publisher: Dijon: Presses du réel,

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En se fondant sur un corpus d'œuvres d'art connues et moins connues, l'auteure revisite les Beaux-Arts au XVIIIe siècle sous l'angle de la représentation des Noirs, figures qui, non seulement, articulent savoirs anthropologiques et expériences esthétiques, mais aussi histoire du luxe métropolitain et histoire de l'esclavage colonial. Ce livre est fondé sur une recherche de plus de dix ans sur les formes qu'ont prises les figures de l'Africain et de l'Africaine dans l'art continental et colonial français d'avant l'imaginaire abolitionniste. Il couvre les cultures visuelles et artistiques qui vont de la fin du XVIIe siècle – à l'époque de Coypel, Mignard, Largillière… – quand les colonies antillaises commencèrent à percer dans le champ artistique métropolitain, au premier tiers du XIXe siècle – à l'époque de Girodet, Benoist et Léthière jusqu'à Géricault… – quand l'échec de la première abolition de l'esclavage (1802) durcit l'iconographie partisane, mettant la violence des vies dans les plantations à l'ordre du jour de la création artistique. « Fruit d'une exigeante recherche de plus de dix ans menée par Anne Lafont, L'art et la race est une réflexion dense et ambitieuse sur les représentations visuelles des Noir.e.s au XVIIIe siècle. Un objet d'étude dont l'approche inédite vient bousculer et stimuler la discipline de l'histoire de l'art en France.» Diane Turquety, En attendant Nadeau.Anne Lafont est historienne de l'art, directrice d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Elle a étudié au Canada et en France avant d'être pensionnaire de la Villa Médicis. Elle a été ensuite maîtresse de conférences en histoire de l'art moderne à l'université Paris-Est avant de rejoindre l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art où elle a passé dix années. Elle est élue à l'EHESS en 2017 sur un projet intitulé Histoire de l'art et créolités. Ses travaux ont porté principalement sur l'art des XVIII et XIXe siècles avec un intérêt particulier pour l'œuvre de la Révolution française et l'imagination picturale des nouveaux citoyens, les Noirs, à l'échelle des révolutions atlantiques. En parallèle, elle a initié des recherches sur la question des savoirs naturalistes et anthropologiques en lien avec les cultures visuelles du voyage, de l'expédition scientifique et du cabinet de curiosités (L'artiste savant à la conquête du monde moderne, 2010 ; 1740, L'abrégé du monde, 2012) mais aussi des travaux sur les écrits des femmes sur l'art autour de 1800 (Plumes et pinceaux. Discours de femmes sur l'art en Europe, 2012). Son travail s'oriente désormais vers l'art des Antilles françaises pendant la période coloniale et, d'une manière générale, sur les arts et les cultures de l'Atlantique noir. "Comment écrire un livre sur une notion problématique, la race, qui a forgé une idéologie de la domination ? Comment la réinvestir en l'articulant à un corpus d'objets spécifiques - les oeuvres d'art représentant des figures noires - qui furent à la fois fétichisés et neutralisés par le musée et le discours ? Et enfin, comment historiciser, tout en gardant à l'esprit leur force essentialisante : l'art, la race, l'Africain et les Lumières, catégories qui ne fonctionnent pas seulement dans la compréhension que l'on peut en avoir dans un temps donné - celui, grossièrement, du XVIIIe siècle - mais qui ont une valeur heuristique par-delà leurs usages initiaux ? Ce sont ces questions qui ont présidé à l'initiative de ce livre. Fondé sur une recherche de plus de dix ans sur les formes qu'ont prises les représentations des Noirs dans l'art français d'avant l'imaginaire abolitionniste, il couvre l'art et les cultures visuelles qui vont de la fin du XVIIe siècle, quand les colonies antillaises commencèrent à percer dans le champ artistique métropolitain, au premier tiers du XIXe siècle quand l'échec de la première abolition de l'esclavage (1802) durcit l'iconographie partisane en mettant la violence des vies dans les plantations à l'ordre du jour de la création artistique."--Page 4 of cover.


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Taking Stakes in the Unknown : Tracing Post-Black Art
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ISBN: 3839452945 9783839452943 9783837652949 3837652947 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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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.


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Howardena Pindell : reclaiming abstraction
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ISBN: 9780300264296 0300264291 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Haven : China : Yale University Press, Printed by 1010 Printing International Limited

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Exploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and Blackness, Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction is a fascinating examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist, curator, and writer Howardena Pindell (b. 1943). It offers a fresh perspective on her abstract practice from the late 1960s through the early 1980s--a period in which debates about Black Power, feminism, and modernist abstraction intersected in uniquely contentious yet generative ways. Sarah Louise Cowan not only asserts Pindell's rightful place within the canon but also recenters dominant historical narratives to reveal the profound and overlooked roles that Black women artists have played in shaping modernist abstraction. Pindell's career acts as a springboard for a broader study of how artists have responded during periods of heightened social activism and used abstraction to convey political urgency. With works that drew on Ghanaian textiles, administrative labor, cosmetics, and postminimalism, Pindell deployed abstraction in deeply personal ways that resonated with collective African diasporic and women's practices. In her groundbreaking analysis, Cowan argues that such work advanced Black feminist modernisms, diverse creative practices that unsettle racist and sexist logics.


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A black gaze : artists changing how we see
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ISBN: 9780262045872 0262045877 0262365669 9780262365666 0262546051 9780262546058 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press,

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In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work--from Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Kahlil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson--requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. The artists whose work Campt explores challenge the fundamental disparity that defines the dominant viewing practice: the notion that Blackness is the elsewhere (or nowhere) of whiteness. These artists create images that flow, that resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life in radical ways. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze.En lire moins


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Juan de Pareja : Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez (exhibition New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 03.04 - 16.07.2023)
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ISBN: 9781588397560 1588397564 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York City : The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

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"This exhibition offers an unprecedented look at the life and artistic achievements of seventeenth-century Afro-Hispanic painter Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670). Largely known today as the subject of The Met's iconic portrait by Diego Velázquez, Pareja was enslaved in Velázquez's studio for over two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. This presentation is the first to tell his story and examine the role of enslaved artisanal labor and a multiracial society in the art and material culture of Spain's so-called "Golden Age." Representations of Spain's Black and Morisco populations in works by Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Velázquez join works that chart the ubiquity of enslaved labor across media, from sculpture to silver. The Met's portrait, executed by Velázquez in Rome in 1650, is contextualized by his other portraits from this period and the original document whereby Pareja was freed upon return to Madrid. The exhibition culminates in the first gathering of Pareja's rarely seen paintings, some of enormous scale, which engage with the canons of Western art while reverberating throughout the African diaspora. Harlem Renaissance collector and scholar Arturo Schomburg was vital to the recovery of Pareja's work and serves as a thread connecting seventeenth-century Spain with twentieth-century New York, providing a lens through which to view the multiple histories that have been written about Pareja."--

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