The purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and analyse the tangled skeins undergirding visual representations of transatlantic slavery across the Black diaspora. Living and workin…
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The purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and analyse the tangled skeins undergirding visual representations of transatlantic slavery across the Black diaspora. Living and workin…
This book adopts a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the experimental bodies of works produced by African, African American, African Caribbean and Black British artists in order to excavate and theorise the formal and thematic contours of an African Di…
"Going beyond the 'blackness' of black art to examine the integrative and interdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and William Pope.L--five contemporary black artists in whose work race plays anything but a defining role. Work by black …
Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of ou…
Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly detai…
Working together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
by Cincinnati Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Willis, Deborah, Duganne, Erina, Eckhardt, Sarah L., Crawford, Romi, Mason, John Edwin, Gaskins, Bill, Cochran, Sharayah, Whitney Museum of American Art, Draper, Louis H., J. Paul Getty Museum
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"Inspired by the archive of Richmond native Louis Draper, VMFA has organized an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the first twenty years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a group of African American photographers he helped to found in 1963. More than 180 photographs by fifteen of…
Working together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
by Cincinnati Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Duganne, Erina, Eckhardt, Sarah L., Crawford, Romi, Mason, John Edwin, Gaskins, Bill, Cochran, Sharayah, Whitney Museum of American Art, Draper, Louis H., Willis-Thomas, Deborah, J. Paul Getty Museum
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"Inspired by the archive of Richmond native Louis Draper VMFA has organized an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the first twenty years of the Kamoinge Workshop a group of African American photographers he helped to found in 1963 More than 180 photographs by fifteen of th…
Working together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
by Cincinnati Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Willis, Deborah, Duganne, Erina, Eckhardt, Sarah L., Draper, Louis H., Crawford, Romi, Mason, John Edwin, Gaskins, Bill, Cochran, Sharayah, Whitney Museum of American Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of African American photography that was presented by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in January 2020. Both the exhibition and catalogue draw heavily on the museum's complete archives of papers and photographs of Virginia artist Louis D…
