A black gaze : artists changing how we see / Tina M. Campt.

Main entry:

Campt, Tina, 1964- author.

Title & Author:

A black gaze : artists changing how we see / Tina M. Campt.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

219 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude to a Black gaze -- The intimacy of strangers -- Black (Counter)Gravity -- The Visual Frequency of Black Life -- The Slow Lives of Still-Moving-Images -- Sounding A Black Feminist Chorus -- Adjacency and the Poethics of Care -- The Haptic Frequencies of Radical Black Joy.

Summary:

"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists inc. Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"-- Provided by publisher.
"In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work--from Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Kahlil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson--requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity. Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. The artists whose work Campt explores challenge the fundamental disparity that defines the dominant viewing practice: the notion that Blackness is the elsewhere (or nowhere) of whiteness. These artists create images that flow, that resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life in radical ways. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262546058 paperback
0262546051 paperback
9780262045872 hardcover
0262045877 hardcover

Subject:

Aesthetics, Black.
Arts, Black 21st century.
Arts and society History 21st century.
Aesthetics.
African Americans.
Art
Esthetics
Black or African American
Esthétique noire.
Arts noirs 21e siècle.
Arts et société Histoire 21e siècle.
Esthétique.
Noirs américains.
African American.
Arts and society
Arts, Black

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315760
Call No.: 315760
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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