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Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Nicole R. Fleetwood
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Description for Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Paperback. Explores how blackness is always a troubling presence in the field of vision and the black body is persistently seen as a problem. This book examines a range of materials from visual and media art, documentary photography, theater and performance, fashion advertising, and celebrity culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
In 2001 Renee Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper" was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. Cox's photographic recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting features an almost all black cast and the artist, nude, standing in for Jesus. The intense controversy that erupted testifies to the enduring power of images of black bodies to unsettle and disturb viewers. Over the course of the twentieth century, as black visibility rose across a variety of media, scholars in art history and media studies began to analyze how audiences view black subjects, while performance and theater studies scholars examined black self-presentation. "Troubling Vision" bridges the ... Read more
In 2001 Renee Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper" was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. Cox's photographic recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting features an almost all black cast and the artist, nude, standing in for Jesus. The intense controversy that erupted testifies to the enduring power of images of black bodies to unsettle and disturb viewers. Over the course of the twentieth century, as black visibility rose across a variety of media, scholars in art history and media studies began to analyze how audiences view black subjects, while performance and theater studies scholars examined black self-presentation. "Troubling Vision" bridges the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226253039
SKU
V9780226253039
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About Nicole R. Fleetwood
Nicole R. Fleetwood is assistant professor of American studies at Rutgers University and an art consultant who has worked with numerous museums and art institutions.
Reviews for Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
"A provocative and timely meditation on how black subjects of cultural production trouble visual discourse. By moving beyond any single medium or genre, Fleetwood is able to articulate how visual tropes of blackness circulate across different visual fields, while never losing sight of the unique logics of the media she examines." - Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley"