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After Caliban
Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary
Häftad, 2025
381 kr
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In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on AimÉ CÉsaire’s rewriting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban becomes the sole author of his own story, …
When Home Is a Photograph
Blackness and Belonging in the World
Häftad, 2026
280 kr
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In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex …
Bloodflowers
Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
Inbunden, 2019
1616 kr
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In Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Born in Nigeria, …
Bloodflowers
Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
Häftad, 2019
389 kr
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In Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Born in Nigeria, …
Media Primitivism
Technological Art in Africa
Inbunden, 2020
1864 kr
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In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that …
Media Primitivism
Technological Art in Africa
Häftad, 2020
457 kr
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In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that …
Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism
Inbunden, 2021
1197 kr
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In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. NoËl investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and …
Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism
Häftad, 2021
309 kr
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In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. NoËl investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and …
New Growth
The Art and Texture of Black Hair
Inbunden, 2022
1157 kr
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From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through …
Death's Futurity
The Visual Life of Black Power
Inbunden, 2023
1157 kr
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In Death’s Futurity Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual …
Insignificant Things
Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Inbunden, 2023
1157 kr
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In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white …
New Growth
The Art and Texture of Black Hair
Häftad, 2022
274 kr
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From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through …
Death's Futurity
The Visual Life of Black Power
Häftad, 2023
294 kr
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In Death’s Futurity Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual …
Insignificant Things
Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Häftad, 2023
294 kr
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In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white …
Nimble Arc
James Van Der Zee and Photography
Av Emilie Boone
Inbunden, 2023
1241 kr
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While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people and events in the Harlem community …
Nimble Arc
James Van Der Zee and Photography
Av Emilie Boone
Häftad, 2023
307 kr
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While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people and events in the Harlem community …
Art of Remembering
Essays on African American Art and History
Inbunden, 2024
1243 kr
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In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"-the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and …
Grime, Glitter, and Glass
The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of RenÉe Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and MarÍa Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene …
After Caliban
Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary
Inbunden, 2025
1444 kr
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In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on AimÉ CÉsaire’s rewriting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in which Caliban becomes the sole author of his own story, …
When Home Is a Photograph
Blackness and Belonging in the World
Inbunden, 2026
1200 kr
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In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex …
Art of Remembering
Essays on African American Art and History
Häftad, 2024
323 kr
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In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"-the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and …
Grime, Glitter, and Glass
The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
Häftad, 2024
309 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of RenÉe Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and MarÍa Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene …
Moving Stones
About the Art of Edmonia Lewis
Inbunden, 2026
1386 kr
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Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and theory, Jennifer DeVere Brody approaches Lewis’s legacy through a Black feminist and queer lens, …
Private Subjects
Family Photography in South Africa and the Right to Opacity
Av John Peffer
Inbunden, 2026
1386 kr
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Freedom As Form
Gavin Jantjes, Anti-Apartheid, and the Transnational Avant-Garde
Inbunden, 2027
1444 kr
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Moving Stones
About the Art of Edmonia Lewis
Häftad, 2026
321 kr
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Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and theory, Jennifer DeVere Brody approaches Lewis’s legacy through a Black feminist and queer lens, …
Private Subjects
Family Photography in South Africa and the Right to Opacity
Av John Peffer
Häftad, 2026
334 kr
Kommande
