Black Art and Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings
Redaktion: Kelly, Michael; Roelofs, Monique

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell Painter, Mickaella Perina, Kevin Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Claudia Schmuckli, Evie Shockley, Paul C. Taylor, Kara Walker, Simone White, and Mabel O. Wilson.

The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by engaging intersectionally with class, queer sexuality, female embodiment, dance vocabularies, coloniality, Afrodiasporic music, Black post-soul art, Afropessimism, and more. Black aesthetics thus restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms of sensation and imagination in art, culture, design, everyday life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience, identity, and resistance.

Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists, activists, theorists, and others who critique racial inequities, create new forms of interiority and relationality, uncover affective histories, and develop strategies for social justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350294608
• Artikelnr.: 69124004

Autorenporträt

Michael Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He is President of the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation, editor of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2014, 2nd edition), and author of A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art (2017). Monique Roelofs is Professor of Philosophy of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic (2014) and Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and the World (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Blackness
Whiteness
and Curatorial Care
Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte
USA) and Monique Roelofs (University of Amsterdam
the Netherlands) Introduction: Revalorizing Black Aesthetics
Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte
USA) and Monique Roelofs (University of Amsterdam
the Netherlands) PART I. Blackness as Aesthetic Strategy 1. Coloring History
Theory
and Painting
Meleko Mokgosi (Artist
Yale University
USA) 2. From the new black and from semiautomatic
Evie Shockley (Poet and Theorist
Rutgers University
USA) 3. Art and Negative Dialectics: On Soft Aesthetics
Angela Y. Davis (UC Santa Cruz
USA) 4. Embracing Injury: Black Queer Bodies and Poetic Experimentation
GerShun Avilez (University of Maryland
USA) 5. Afrodiasporic Aesthetics in Classical and Experimental Music After 1960
George E. Lewis (Musician and Theorist
Columbia University
USA) PART II. Black Art Spaces 6. See Me Here: Defining Black Space at the Intersection of Artistic and Curatorial Practices in Privy
Deborah Goffe (Dancer and Theorist
Trinity College
USA) 7. The Black Image Corporation: When History Isn't Enough. The Need for Corporate Practices Within the Archive
Theaster Gates (Artist
Chicago
USA) 8. elevators
Simone White and Benjamin Krusling (Poets
University of Pennsylvania and New York City
USA) 9. Aesthetic Form in the New Thing: Aesthetic Sociality of Musique Informelle
Fumi Okiji (Musician and Theorist
University of California
Berkeley
USA) 10. White by Design
Mabel O. Wilson (Architect and Theorist
Columbia University
USA) PART III. History Making 11. Swampy Land by the River Don
Nell Painter (Artist and Historian
Princeton University
USA) 12. Addressing the World? Aesthetics of Resistance
Difference
and Relationality in Aimé Césaire's Plays
Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts at Boston
USA) 13. Making Histories: Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli
Wangechi Mutu (Artist
New York City
USA); Isaac Julien (Filmmaker
London and UC Santa Cruz
USA); and Claudia Schmuckli (Curator
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
USA) 14. Aliveness and Aesthetics
Kevin Quashie (Brown University
USA) 15. Two Images: Fons Americanum and The Right Side
Kara Walker (Artist
New York City
USA) PART IV. Groundings
Transpositions
Breaks 16. From the black maria and from Kingdom Animalia
Aracelis Girmay (Poet
Stanford University
USA) 17. Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Harvard University
USA) 18. "Survival is not a theory": Afro-Pessimism Transposed
Paul C. Taylor (University of California
Los Angeles
USA) 19. Imitation of Life/A Box Full of Darkness
James B. Haile
III (University of Rhode Island
USA) PART V. Callings 20. Tracy K. Smith's Ordinary Life: Enfleshing a Theory of Post-Soul
Daphne Lamothe (Smith College
USA) 21. From Citizen and from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
Claudia Rankine (Poet
New York University
USA) 22. Dance On
Thomas F. DeFrantz (Dancer and Theorist
Northwestern University
USA) 23. 'One-eyed' Immersive Particularities
Jeremy Matthew Glick (Hunter College
USA) 24. On Black Speculative Musicalities
Vijay Iyer (Musician and Theorist
Harvard University
USA) Index