Exhibiting Blackness

2011 African American art

Author : Bridget R. Cooks
Release : 2011
Genre : African American art
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Download or read book Exhibiting Blackness written by Bridget R. Cooks. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Exhibiting Blackness, art historian Bridget R. Cooks analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and critical receptions of the most significant museum exhibitions of African American art. Tracing two dominant methodologies used to exhibit art by African Americans--an ethnographic approach that focuses more on artists than their art, and a recovery narrative aimed at correcting past omissions--Cooks exposes the issues involved in exhibiting cultural difference that continue to challenge art history, historiography, and American museum exhibition practices. By further examining the unequal and often contested relationship between African American artists, curators, and visitors, she provides insight into the complex role of art museums and their accountability to the cultures they represent."--

The Black Index

2020-10-15

Author : Bridget R. Cooks
Release : 2020-10-15
Genre :
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Download or read book The Black Index written by Bridget R. Cooks. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artists featured in The Black Index--Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas--build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Their translations of photography challenge the medium's long-assumed qualities of objectivity, legibility, and identification. Using drawing, sculpture, and digital technology to transform the recorded image, these artists question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and historical understanding. The works featured here offer an alternative practice--a Black index. In the hands of these six artists, the index still serves as a finding aid for information about Black subjects, but it also challenges viewers' desire for classification and, instead, redirects them toward alternative information.

Exhibiting Contradiction

1998 Architecture

Author : Alan Wallach
Release : 1998
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Exhibiting Contradiction written by Alan Wallach. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Exhibiting Contradiction, a leading scholar considers the way art museums have depicted--and continue to depict--American society and the American past. In closely focused and often controversial essays, Alan Wallach explores the opposing ideologies that drove the development of the American art museum in the nineteenth century and the tensions and contradictions characteristic of recent museum history.

Mounting Frustration

2016-01-28 Art

Author : Susan E. Cahan
Release : 2016-01-28
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Mounting Frustration written by Susan E. Cahan. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on three controversial exhibitions that integrated African American culture and art, Cahan shows how the art world's racial politics is far more complicated than overcoming past exclusions.

Two Centuries of Black American Art

1976 Art

Author : David C. Driskell
Release : 1976
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Two Centuries of Black American Art written by David C. Driskell. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book represents a major event in the art world. It is the first book to encompass the entire span and range of black art in America, from unknown artisans and journeymen painters of the 18th century to such internationally admired 19th-century artists as Edward M. Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, through the artists of the dynamic "Harlem Renaissance" of the 1920s, and up to Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden ... and reproduces works, chronologically arranged, by all the 63 artists in the show, their paintings, sculptures, graphics, as well as crafts ranging from dolls to walking sticks" --

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