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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic

Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic

Hamilton, Elizabeth Carmel

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race

Art HistoryAmerican Art - African American & Black

ISBN10: 036768909X
ISBN13: 9780367689094
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States.

This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States.

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