Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American

Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)

What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of â€˜blacknessâ€™ 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 the ever-evolving sexual and gender politics that have come to define the highly controversial notion of â€˜post-blackâ€™ art. First coined in 2001, the term â€˜post-blackâ€™ resonated because it articulated the frustrations of young African-American artists around notions of identity and belonging that they perceived to be stifling, reductive and exclusionary. Since then, these artists have begun to conceive an idea of blackness that is beyond marginalization and sexual discrimination.
Country USA
Brand Bloomsbury
Manufacturer I.B. Tauris
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 41 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates
ReleaseDate 2015-12-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781784532871

Country	USA
Brand	Bloomsbury
Manufacturer	I.B. Tauris
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	41 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates
ReleaseDate	2015-12-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781784532871

Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)

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