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Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
Kymberly N. Pinder
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Description for Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
Paperback. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 color photographs, 8 black and white photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; ACBS; AGR; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N. Pinder escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting the city's African American churches and neighborhoods. Moving from Chicago's oldest black Christ figure to contemporary religious street art, Pinder explores ideas like blackness in public, art for black communities, and the relationship of Afrocentric art to Black Liberation Theology. She also focuses attention on art excluded from scholarship due to racial or religious particularity. Throughout, she reflects on the ... Read more
Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N. Pinder escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting the city's African American churches and neighborhoods. Moving from Chicago's oldest black Christ figure to contemporary religious street art, Pinder explores ideas like blackness in public, art for black communities, and the relationship of Afrocentric art to Black Liberation Theology. She also focuses attention on art excluded from scholarship due to racial or religious particularity. Throughout, she reflects on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Black Studies Series
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081439
SKU
V9780252081439
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About Kymberly N. Pinder
Kymberly N. Pinder is Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico and editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History.
Reviews for Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
Pinder's book is incredibly rich in its interdisciplinarity, and it is broadly relevant to larger discussions of African American art, literature, music, and activism (to name a few realms) outside of Chicago.
College Art Association Pinder has provided a rigorously researched guide to black public art in Painting the Gospel. The value of ... Read more
College Art Association Pinder has provided a rigorously researched guide to black public art in Painting the Gospel. The value of ... Read more