Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of James Baldwin’s and Beauford Delaney’s works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life.
Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of James Baldwin’s and Beauford Delaney’s works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life.
List of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin / Amy J. Elias 1 I. Circuits of Selfhood 1. Jimmy and Beauford: The Bond of the Unusual Door / David Leeming 39 2. The Mentor: James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and the Habit of Doing / Hilton Als 50 3. “You Pay for Your Life with Your Life”: James Baldwin’s Search for Jimmy Baldwin, 1969–1972 / Ed Pavli¿ 53 4. Beauford Delaney’s Black Queer Fatherhood / Magdalena J. Zaborowska 66 II. Synesthesia and Arts in Dialogue 5. Blue(s) as Cymbal: Beauford Delaney (Elvin Jones) James Baldwin / Fred Moten 79 6. Baldwin and Delaney: Yellows and Blues / Robert G. O’Meally 98 7. Chiaroscuro, Delaney’s Aesthetic Vision, and Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” / D. Quentin Miller 119 8. Yellow Light, Black Abstraction: Jazz, Writing, and Ethical Shattering in Baldwin’s and Delaney’s Works / Walton M. Muyumba 131 9. Baldwin/Delaney/Cazac / Nicholas Boggs 146 10. Singed Innocence: Baldwin, Delaney, and the Problematic Black Child / Robert F. Reid-Pharr 160 III. Visibility, Performance, Abstraction 11. Baldwin and Delaney: The Politics and Performance of Black Sight / Indie A. Choudhury 171 12. Shared Subjects / Rachel Cohen 187 13. Choosing Both: Abstraction and Singularity in Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin / Monika Gehlewat 197 14: “Architects of the Spirit”: Color and Intimacy in Beauford Delaney’s Post-1950 Abstractions / Abbe Schriber 208 15. Feeling Modernist: Beauford Delaney’s Self-Portrait (1944) / Levi Prombaum 224 16. “The Giacometti Effect”: Reconsidering Beauford Delaney’s 1966 Portrait Bust of James Baldwin / Stephen C. Wicks 240 IV. Continuing Influence 17. Queer Radiance: Beauford Delaney at the Bathhouse / Tyler T. Schmidt 251 18. Baldwin, Delaney, and Black Artists’ Genealogical Legacies / Shawn Anthony Christian 266 19. In a Speculative Light: The Portrait Project / Jered Sprecher 278 Bibliography 289 Contributors 309 Index Plate Credits
List of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin / Amy J. Elias 1 I. Circuits of Selfhood 1. Jimmy and Beauford: The Bond of the Unusual Door / David Leeming 39 2. The Mentor: James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and the Habit of Doing / Hilton Als 50 3. “You Pay for Your Life with Your Life”: James Baldwin’s Search for Jimmy Baldwin, 1969–1972 / Ed Pavli¿ 53 4. Beauford Delaney’s Black Queer Fatherhood / Magdalena J. Zaborowska 66 II. Synesthesia and Arts in Dialogue 5. Blue(s) as Cymbal: Beauford Delaney (Elvin Jones) James Baldwin / Fred Moten 79 6. Baldwin and Delaney: Yellows and Blues / Robert G. O’Meally 98 7. Chiaroscuro, Delaney’s Aesthetic Vision, and Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” / D. Quentin Miller 119 8. Yellow Light, Black Abstraction: Jazz, Writing, and Ethical Shattering in Baldwin’s and Delaney’s Works / Walton M. Muyumba 131 9. Baldwin/Delaney/Cazac / Nicholas Boggs 146 10. Singed Innocence: Baldwin, Delaney, and the Problematic Black Child / Robert F. Reid-Pharr 160 III. Visibility, Performance, Abstraction 11. Baldwin and Delaney: The Politics and Performance of Black Sight / Indie A. Choudhury 171 12. Shared Subjects / Rachel Cohen 187 13. Choosing Both: Abstraction and Singularity in Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin / Monika Gehlewat 197 14: “Architects of the Spirit”: Color and Intimacy in Beauford Delaney’s Post-1950 Abstractions / Abbe Schriber 208 15. Feeling Modernist: Beauford Delaney’s Self-Portrait (1944) / Levi Prombaum 224 16. “The Giacometti Effect”: Reconsidering Beauford Delaney’s 1966 Portrait Bust of James Baldwin / Stephen C. Wicks 240 IV. Continuing Influence 17. Queer Radiance: Beauford Delaney at the Bathhouse / Tyler T. Schmidt 251 18. Baldwin, Delaney, and Black Artists’ Genealogical Legacies / Shawn Anthony Christian 266 19. In a Speculative Light: The Portrait Project / Jered Sprecher 278 Bibliography 289 Contributors 309 Index Plate Credits
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