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Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art

Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art

Greene, Nikki A.

Hardcover

Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas

Art HistoryAmerican Art - African American & BlackBlack American Studies

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ISBN10: 1478026340
ISBN13: 9781478026341
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene traces the intersection of the visual's sonic possibilities with the Black body's physical, representational, and metaphorical use in art. She employs her concept of visual aesthetic musicality to interpret Black visual art by examining the musical genres of jazz and rap, along with the often-overlooked innovations of funk and rumba, within art historiography. From Bailey's use of multilayered surfaces of glitter, mud, and recycled materials to meditate on Sun Ra's Afrofuturism to Stout's life-size cast of her own body that recalls funk musician Betty Davis to Campos-Pons's performative and sculptural references to sugar that resonate with the legacy of Celia Cruz, Greene outlines how these artists use mediums such as molded glass sculptures, viscous wet plaster, and dazzling mannequin heads to enhance the manifestations of Black identity. By foregrounding the sonic elements of their work, Greene demonstrates that these artists use sound to make themselves legible, recognizable, and audible.

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