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Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights
Derek Conrad Murray
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Description for Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights
Paperback. This book explores the political, conceptual, and aesthetic concerns of a post-Civil Rights generation of artists, as they imagine African-American identity through a more inclusive critical lens. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 34. Weight in Grams: 354.
What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? In Queering Post-Black Art, Derek Conrad Murray argues that the rise of female, gay and lesbian artists as legitimate African-American creative voices is essential to the development of black art. He considers iconic works by artists including Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas and Kalup Linzy, which question whether it is possible for blackness to evade its ideologically over-determined cultural legibility. In their own unique, often satirical way, a new generation of contemporary African American artists represent ... Read more
What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? In Queering Post-Black Art, Derek Conrad Murray argues that the rise of female, gay and lesbian artists as legitimate African-American creative voices is essential to the development of black art. He considers iconic works by artists including Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas and Kalup Linzy, which question whether it is possible for blackness to evade its ideologically over-determined cultural legibility. In their own unique, often satirical way, a new generation of contemporary African American artists represent ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784532871
SKU
V9781784532871
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About Derek Conrad Murray
Derek Conrad Murray is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is one of the foremost experts on the subject of contemporary African-American art. He completed a Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University in 2005.
Reviews for Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights
'In Queering Post-Black Art, Murray takes on the project of art history itself, its creation of arbitrary value that lauds certain efforts and excludes others. Murray parses out and takes on discourses that are key to understandings of art history, African-American art, and Contemporary art. He is unafraid of speaking truth to power.' - Cherise Smith, Associate Professor of Art ... Read more