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Roderick A. Ferguson - In View of the Tradition, Inbunden

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In View of the Tradition

Black Art and Radical Thought

Av Roderick A. Ferguson

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A field-shaping account of how contemporary Black art revitalizes the Black radical traditionIn View of the Tradition argues that contemporary Black artists do not simply comment on politics. They help to generate it. Moving across sculpture, installation, photography, and film, Roderick A. Ferguson shows how Black art clarifies the stakes of capitalism, migration, war, settler colonialism, and ecological crisis while widening the tradition’s feminist, queer, and transnational horizons. The book asks what it means to relocate Black art in the annals of freedom rather than the balance sheets of the marketplace.Reading work by John Akomfrah, Stephen Hayes, Hew Locke, Fabrice Monteiro, Wangechi Mutu, Noah Purifoy, Cauleen Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, Ferguson restores the social character of art: how artworks imagine community, connect histories, and model ways of making and remaking the world. Street-level practices associated with Purifoy reframe official narratives of disorder into studies of collective making and civic imagination. Weems’s Hampton Project situates Black and Native lives within intertwined histories of racial governance and settler pedagogy, building an aesthetics of reckoning that links emancipation to captivity.Across the Atlantic world, artists turn to the sea as both history and prophecy. In the flotillas and filmic ecologies of Locke, Akomfrah, and Monteiro, water becomes a sensor of racial capitalism and refugee flight, and it calls Black radicalism to account for migration’s precarity and the force of deregulated markets. Mutu’s hybrid anatomies trace militarism’s afterlives, from colonial counterinsurgency to Cold War entanglements, where bodies and ecologies register violence yet assemble unexpected kinships. The book closes with art as praxis through Cauleen Smith’s Human 3.0 Reading List, a hand-drawn syllabus that doubles as an engine room of creation. Ferguson names a method that is accessible and rigorous: look closely, connect widely, and link visual literacy to insurgent study and to áshe, the capacity to make things happen. Written with clarity for general readers and with depth for scholars and classrooms, In View of the Tradition shows how Black art and radical thought come together to represent the world and to sketch other possible ones.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-31
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 431 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Förlag: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9781531513443
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Roderick A. Ferguson is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer, We Demand: The University and Student Protests, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference, and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique.

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"In View of the Tradition explores the connection between art, history and the Black radical tradition. These precise accounts framing each artwork track the inevitable connections between our global historical realities and our cultural production. Ferguson brilliantly connects the dots by guiding the gaze of the viewer back through the days, hours, legislation, policies, protests, wars, resilience and devastations that inform the stunning works produced by artists such as Stephen Hayes, Noah Purifoy, Frances Benjamin Johnson, Fabrice Monteiro, Carrie Mae Weems, Hew Locke, John Akomfrah, Wangechi Mutu and Cauleen Smith, among others. The cultural significance of this book cannot be overstated in a time when some might question what it is all for. In View of the Tradition is the gift of memory for future artmaking." - Claudia Rankine "In In View of the Tradition, Roderick A. Ferguson reclaims Black art from the constraints of the market, framing it instead as a vital vessel for history, warning, and radical inspiration. By putting contemporary visual practices in conversation with Black radical thought – from the ruins of Watts to the mutations of global militarism – Ferguson demonstrates how our work serves as a divine force, or áshe, capable of revitalizing political agency. This text is an essential call for us to remain immersed in our collective intellectual traditions, ensuring that the Black radical imagination remains a living, transformative project in the face of modern emergencies." - Lyle Ashton Harris "Contributing to studies of the afterlife of slavery as well as its connected ecologies, In View of the Tradition is a stunning work of research and writing. A vital and necessary addition to the field of Black Studies, Visual Culture Studies and Transatlantic Studies." - Kimberly Juanita Brown, author of Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning "Featuring Hew Locke, Noah Purifoy, and Wangechi Mutu, among others, this book promises to illuminate a web of politics and worldbuilding, with artists at its center." - Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hyperallergic Media

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