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Queering Post-Black Art

Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights

By: Derek Conrad Murray

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Queering Post-Black Art

Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights

By: Derek Conrad Murray

What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? In Queering Post-Black Art, Derek Conrad Murray argues that the rise of female, gay and lesbian artists as legitimate African-American creative voices is essential to the development of black art. He considers iconic works by artists including Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas and Kalup Linzy, which question whether it is possible for blackness to evade its ideologically over-determined cultural legibility. In their own unique, often satirical way, a new generation of contemporary African American artists represent the ever-evolving sexual and gender politics that have come to define the highly controversial notion of 'post-black' art. First coined in 2001, the term 'post-black' resonated because it articulated the frustrations of young African-American artists around notions of identity and belonging that they perceived to be stifling, reductive and exclusionary. Since then, these artists have begun to conceive an idea of blackness that is beyond marginalization and sexual discrimination.

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I.B. Tauris

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1784532878

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9781784532871

Mapplethorpe and the Flower

Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control

By: Derek Conrad Murray

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Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control

By: Derek Conrad Murray

Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs – and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350108782

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Mapplethorpe and the Flower

Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control

By: Derek Conrad Murray

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Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control

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1350108774

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Darrel Ellis

By: Tiana Reid

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Darrel Ellis

By: Tiana Reid

Foreword -- Darrel Ellis and the Poetics of Opacity / Derek Conrad Murray -- The Faces & Forms of Darrel Ellis / Tiana Reid -- A New Sensibility / David Hirsh -- Works -- To Be Remembered-To Have Been Real / Sadie Barnette, Alanna Fields, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya with Ariel Goldberg -- Process -- The Case of the Artist's Archive / Steven G. Fullwood -- Chronology -- Exhibition History -- Bibliography -- Contributor Biographies.

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Visual Aids, New York

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1732641552

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9781732641556

Variety Portable Movie Guide

By: Derek Elley

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Variety Portable Movie Guide

By: Derek Elley

Now in a handy pocket edition, this authoritative guide includes more than 8,700 reviews--from the dawn of film through every major release of 1999. Includes information on the casts, directors, Academy Award( nominees and winners, and movies on video, disc, and wide-screen formats. This updated edition has 100 new reviews.

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0425175502

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9780425175507

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Queering Post-Black Art

Queering Post-Black Art

Mapplethorpe and the Flower

Mapplethorpe and the Flower

Mapplethorpe and the Flower

Mapplethorpe and the Flower

Darrel Ellis

Darrel Ellis

Variety Portable Movie Guide

Variety Portable Movie Guide

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