Taking Stakes in the Unknown

Tracing Post-Black Art

von Nana Adusei-Poku

218 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas – and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.

• Reihe: Image
• ISBN: 9783837652949
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2021
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: transcript