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Black Is a Color

Black Is a Color

Zabunyan, Elvan

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American Art - African American & BlackIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 2914563205
ISBN13: 9782914563208
Publisher: Dis Voir Editions
Published: Jan 15 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Contemporary art through the lens of African American artists, from David Hammons to Carrie Mae Weems

Contemporary art through the lens of African-American artists: Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Renée Green, Faith Ringgold, Senga Nengudi, Pat Ward Williams, Lorraine O'Grady, Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Fred Wilson, Dany Tisdale, June Clark and Gary Simmons. In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today. Combining a historical study with probing critical analysis, Black is a Color depicts an America marked indelibly by its slavery past, out of which Afro-American contemporary artists have been able to build a singular and engaged body of work to protest against the cultural and political consequences of racial discrimination. In chapters covering notions of Black conscience, the relation of attitude to form, and women Afro-American artists, Zabunyan traces the emergence of artistic identity in various forms of representation (painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance). Close readings of the oeuvres of David Hammons, Adrian Piper, and others uncover the place of the body, urban space and memory in the works of Black artists, who are represented with more than 130 images.

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