Blackness In Abstraction
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Blackness In Abstraction
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Author : Adrienne Edwards (Art critic)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Blackness In Abstraction written by Adrienne Edwards (Art critic) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art, Abstract categories.
Pace Gallery is pleased to present Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today. Featuring works by an international and intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art.--Pace website.
Abstractionist Aesthetics
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Author : Phillip Brian Harper
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-12-25
Abstractionist Aesthetics written by Phillip Brian Harper and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-25 with Art categories.
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.
Adventures Of The Black Square
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Author : Whitechapel Art Gallery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Adventures Of The Black Square written by Whitechapel Art Gallery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art, Abstract categories.
Exploring how the universal visual language of geometric abstraction was influenced by different societies, this volume also demonstrates how the movement's revolutionary aesthetic continues to impact culture around the globe. It traces a century of abstract art from 1915 to the present day, celebrating the accomplishments of both men and women and includes sculpture, film, photography and painting. Organised around four distinct themes - communication, architectonics, utopia and everyday life - the book presents a chronological survey from Russia to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central America, Africa, South America, and the US. Each of the 100 works is featured in double-page spreads with brief artist biographies. Essays by Tanya Barson, Briony Fer, Tom McDonough, and Joshua Jiang, contextualize the various geographic and aesthetic stages of the development of geometric abstraction.
Black Post Blackness
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Author : Margo Natalie Crawford
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2017-05-12
Black Post Blackness written by Margo Natalie Crawford and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-12 with Social Science categories.
A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post-black." Black Post-Blackness compares the black avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s Black Arts Movement with the most innovative spins of twenty-first century black aesthetics. Crawford zooms in on the 1970s second wave of the Black Arts Movement and shows the connections between this final wave of the Black Arts movement and the early years of twenty-first century black aesthetics. She uncovers the circle of black post-blackness that pivots on the power of anticipation, abstraction, mixed media, the global South, satire, public interiority, and the fantastic.
Discrepant Abstraction
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Author : Kobena Mercer
language : en
Publisher: Turner A&r Press
Release Date : 2006
Discrepant Abstraction written by Kobena Mercer and has been published by Turner A&r Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th-century art, this book introduces fresh perspectives on abstraction as a visual signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions that abstract art has taken in different international contexts. This groundbreaking collection shows how the heterogeneous qualities of abstraction have been cross-fertilised, from abstract expressionism onwards, by the creative discrepancies that arise when different cultural identities come face to face in the artistic imagination. Discrepant Abstraction is the second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Contributors: Stanley Abe; David Clarke; Mark Cheetham; David Craven; Wilson Harris; Iftikhar Dadi; Kellie Jones; Nathaniel Mackey; Kobena Mercer and Angeline Morrison. Supported by the Getty Foundation.
The Trouble With Post Blackness
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Author : Houston A. Baker Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-03
The Trouble With Post Blackness written by Houston A. Baker Jr. and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced as a leader by all. Yet complicating this vision are shifting demographics, rapid redefinitions of race, and the instant invention of brands, trends, and identities that determine how we think about ourselves and the place of others. This collection of original essays confronts the premise, advanced by black intellectuals, that the Obama administration marked the start of a "post-racial" era in the United States. While the "transcendent" and post-racial black elite declare victory over America's longstanding codes of racial exclusion and racist violence, their evidence relies largely on their own salaries and celebrity. These essays strike at the certainty of those who insist that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are now independent of skin color and race in America. They argue, signify, and testify that "post-blackness" is a problematic mythology masquerading as fact—a dangerous new "race science" motivated by black transcendentalist individualism. Through rigorous analysis, these essays expose the idea of a post-racial nation as a pleasurable entitlement for a black elite, enabling them to reject the ethics and urgency of improving the well-being of the black majority.
On The Sleeve Of The Visual
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Author : Alessandra Raengo
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2013
On The Sleeve Of The Visual written by Alessandra Raengo and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Performing Arts categories.
An investigation of race and the ontology of the visual
For Pleasure
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Author : Rachel Jane Carroll
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-12-12
For Pleasure written by Rachel Jane Carroll and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
"For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain a global racial order and also to undo it"--
The Human In Bits
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Author : Kris Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2025-07-25
The Human In Bits written by Kris Cohen and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-25 with Art categories.
Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled in the graphic user interface of the personal computer.
The Routledge Companion To African American Art History
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Author : Eddie Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-12
The Routledge Companion To African American Art History written by Eddie Chambers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Art categories.
This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how African American art is and has been taught and researched in academia. The third part focuses on how African American art has been reflected in art galleries and museums. The final section opens up understandings of what we mean when we speak of African American art. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and professors and may be used in American art, African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.