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Rediscovering Black Portraiture

Rediscovering Black Portraiture

Brathwaite, Peter
Finley, Cheryl
Odumosu, Temi

Hardcover

American Art - African American & BlackGeneral ArtArt & Popular Culture

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ISBN10: 1606068164
ISBN13: 9781606068168
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: May 30 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 1.76
Height: 0.72 Width: 7.74 Depth: 9.65
Language: English

Join Peter Brathwaite on an extraordinary journey through representations of Black subjects in Western art, from medieval Europe through the present day.

These mirror images with their uncanny resemblances traverse space and time, spotlighting the black lives that have been silenced by the canon of western art, while also inviting us to interrogate the present. --Times (UK)

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Brathwaite has thoughtfully researched and reimagined more than one hundred artworks featuring portraits of Black sitters--all posted to social media with the caption Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge.

Rediscovering Black Portraiture collects more than fifty of Brathwaite's most intriguing re-creations. Introduced by the author and framed by contributions from experts in art history and visual culture, this fascinating book offers a nuanced look at the complexities and challenges of building identity within the African diaspora and how such forces have informed Black portraits over time. Artworks featured include The Adoration of the Magi by Georges Trubert, Portrait of an Unknown Man by Jan Mostaert, Rice n Peas by Sonia Boyce, Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, and many more. This volume also invites readers behind the scenes, offering a glimpse of the elegant artifice of Brathwaite's props, setup, and process.

An urgent and compelling exploration of embodiment, representation, and agency, Rediscovering Black Portraiture serves to remind us that Black subjects have been portrayed in art for nearly a millennium and that their stories demand to be told.

An exhibition of Brathwaite's re-creations is on view at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in Bristol, UK from April 14 to September 3, 2023.

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