An edition of African American visual aesthetics (1995)

African American visual aesthetics

a postmodernist view

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An edition of African American visual aesthetics (1995)

African American visual aesthetics

a postmodernist view

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In this collection of ground-breaking essays, five prominent curators and scholars - Ann Gibson, Keith Morrison, Sharon F. Patton, Richard J. Powell, and Lowery Strokes Simsexplore postmodernism's influence on African American art during the last thirty years.

Covering the works of such contemporary artists as Renee Stout, Joe Overstreet, David Hammons, Beverly Buchanan, and Martha Jackson-Jarvis, the book revisits the questions, posed in the 1930s by critics Alain Locke and James Herring, about how to define and to interpret African American art.

The contributors address such interrelated issues as an African American aesthetic identity, personal experiences of culture, the relationship between art and politics, and the blurring of the distinction between "art" and "craft." They describe the new aesthetic of pan-African art, analyze individual works of art, and argue that the multicultural embrace of the 1990s misappropriates African American culture.

Illustrated with photographs of the works discussed, the book is the first to explore the provocative issues raised at the confluence of two of contemporary art's most richly layered movements. It also provides an insightful survey of the relationships between individual works of art, postmodern theory, and a nascent African American aesthetic.

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Language
English
Pages
140

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Cover of: African American Visual Aesthetics
African American Visual Aesthetics: A Postmodernist View
January 17, 1996, Smithsonian
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Cover of: African American visual aesthetics
African American visual aesthetics: a postmodernist view
1995, Smithsonian Institution Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Washington

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
704/.0396073
Library of Congress
N6538.N5 A347 1995, N6538.N5A347 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 140 p. :
Number of pages
140

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1278507M
Internet Archive
africanamericanv00dris
ISBN 10
1560986050
LCCN
95010256
OCLC/WorldCat
32167005
Library Thing
5462562
Goodreads
874366

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