{"product_id":"black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294622","title":"Black Art and Aesthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Art and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: \u003cb\u003eGerShun 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMabel O. Wilson.\u003c\/b\u003e  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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Art and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is an important collection of cutting-edge essays that explore the possibility of \"revalorizing\" Black aesthetics in ways that embrace both complex continuities and ruptures in the freighted history of aesthetics. The volume assembles writing by some of the most innovative artists and thinkers at the core of black contemporary art history, criticism and practice. * Tina Campt, Professor of Humanities, Princeton University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis impressive and vibrant assemblage of artists, poets, and theorists showcases the beauty and brilliance of Black aesthetics. Each investigation buzzes with strategies for creating, living, and being despite difficulty. As a gathering, \u003ci\u003eBlack Art and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e promises to remake how we see the world. * Amber Jamilla Musser, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThe essays collected in \u003ci\u003eBlack Art and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e represent a comprehensive statement on the continuing vitality of Black aesthetics and a revaluation of the cultural forces that have been driving the production of art in the Black diaspora. Drawing from a gallery of distinguished scholars, poets, and artists, this volume will serve as a model of critical thinking about Black aesthetics for a long time. * Simon Gikandi, Professor of English, Princeton University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eFinally, we have a book that explores and tracks the fugitive, complicated, intractable, and vital idea of Black Aesthetics with the expansive critical and intellectual sophistication that the scholarship has been waiting for since the 1960s. Finally. * Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor of Art and Archaeology and  African-American Studies, Princeton University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eNow that this wonderful anthology of Black Art and aesthetics is finally here, we can see just how necessary and long-awaited it was. And it's not just a juxtaposition of texts and works of art in a still tableau. It is, fortunately, a powerful expression of the movement and life force of the inexhaustible fountain of black aesthetics: \u003ci\u003efons africanus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efons americanus \u003c\/i\u003eall at once. * Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and of Philosophy, and Director of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eKelly and Roelofs’s collection is a welcome and much needed contribution to the philosophically-informed study of Black Art and aesthetic practices.  The range of insight is impressive and the acuity of the analyses even more so.  Artists and theorists alike will draw inspiration from these essays.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Robert J. Gooding-Williams, Professor of African-American  Studies and of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Acknowledgments  Preface: Blackness, Whiteness, and Curatorial Care, \u003ci\u003eMichael Kelly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) and Monique Roelofs (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction: Revalorizing Black Aesthetics,\u003ci\u003e Michael Kelly (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) and Monique Roelofs (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART I. Blackness as Aesthetic Strategy\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Coloring History, Theory, and Painting, \u003ci\u003eMeleko Mokgosi (Artist, Yale University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. From \u003ci\u003ethe new black \u003c\/i\u003eand from\u003ci\u003e semiautomatic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvie Shockley (Poet and Theorist, Rutgers University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Art and Negative Dialectics: On Soft Aesthetics, \u003ci\u003eAngela Y. Davis (UC Santa Cruz, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Embracing Injury: Black Queer Bodies and Poetic Experimentation, \u003ci\u003eGerShun Avilez (University of Maryland, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Afrodiasporic Aesthetics in Classical and Experimental Music After 1960, \u003ci\u003eGeorge E. Lewis (Musician and Theorist, Columbia University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART II. Black Art Spaces\u003c\/b\u003e  6. See Me Here: Defining Black Space at the Intersection of Artistic and Curatorial Practices in \u003ci\u003ePrivy\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Deborah Goffe (Dancer and Theorist, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrinity College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. The Black Image Corporation: When History Isn’t Enough. The Need for Corporate Practices Within the Archive, \u003ci\u003eTheaster Gates (Artist, Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. elevators,   \u003ci\u003eSimone White and Benjamin Krusling (Poets, University of Pennsylvania and New York City, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Aesthetic Form in the New Thing: Aesthetic Sociality of \u003ci\u003eMusique  Informelle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFumi Okiji (Musician and Theorist, University of California, Berkeley, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  10. White by Design, \u003ci\u003eMabel O. Wilson (Architect and Theorist, Columbia University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART III. History Making\u003c\/b\u003e  11. Swampy Land by the River Don, \u003ci\u003eNell Painter (Artist and Historian, Princeton University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Addressing the World? Aesthetics of Resistance, Difference, and Relationality in Aimé Césaire’s Plays, \u003ci\u003eMickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Making Histories: Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli\u003ci\u003e, 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)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Aliveness and Aesthetics, \u003ci\u003eKevin Quashie (Brown University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  15. Two Images: \u003ci\u003eFons Americanum\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Right \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKara Walker (Artist, New York City, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART IV. Groundings, Transpositions, Breaks\u003c\/b\u003e  16. From \u003ci\u003ethe black maria \u003c\/i\u003eand from \u003ci\u003eKingdom Animalia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAracelis Girmay\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Poet, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eStanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  17. Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law, \u003ci\u003eSarah Elizabeth Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (Harvard University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  18. “Survival is not a theory”: Afro-Pessimism Transposed, \u003ci\u003ePaul C. Taylor (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e  19. Imitation of Life\/A Box Full of Darkness, \u003ci\u003eJames B. Haile, III (University of Rhode Island, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART V. Callings \u003c\/b\u003e  20. Tracy K. Smith's\u003ci\u003e Ordinary Life\u003c\/i\u003e: Enfleshing a Theory of  Post-Soul, \u003ci\u003eDaphne Lamothe (Smith College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  21. From \u003ci\u003eCitizen \u003c\/i\u003eand from \u003ci\u003eDon’t Let Me Be Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClaudia Rankine (Poet, New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  22. Dance On, \u003ci\u003eThomas F. DeFrantz\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Dancer and Theorist, Northwestern University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  23. ‘One-eyed’ Immersive Particularities, \u003ci\u003eJeremy Matthew Glick\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eHunter College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  24. On Black Speculative Musicalities, \u003ci\u003eVijay Iyer (Musician and Theorist, Harvard University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738616541527,"sku":"9781350294622","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294622","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}