Author: Daniel C. Blight
Publisher: Spbh Editions
ISBN: 9781916041295
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whiteness From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary "white savior" social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. As various scholars have shown, the technology of the camera is not innocent, and neither are the images it produces. The invention and continuation of the "white race" is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon; it is also a complexly visual one. What does whiteness look like, and how might we begin to trace an antiracist history of artistic resistance that works against it? The Image of Whitenessseeks to introduce its reader to some important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, to describe its falsehoods, its paradoxes and its oppressive nature, and to highlight some of the crucial work photographic artists have done to subvert and critique its image. The Image of Whitenessincludes the work of artists Abdul Abdullah, Agata Madejska, Broomberg & Chanarin, Buck Ellison, John Lucas & Claudia Rankine, David Birkin, Hank Willis Thomas, Kajal Nisha Patel, Michelle Dizon & Viet Le, Nancy Burson, Nate Lewis, Libita Clayton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Richard Misrach, Sophie Gabrielle, Stacy Kranitz and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.
The Image of Whiteness
Author: Daniel C. Blight
Publisher: Spbh Editions
ISBN: 9781916041295
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whiteness From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary "white savior" social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. As various scholars have shown, the technology of the camera is not innocent, and neither are the images it produces. The invention and continuation of the "white race" is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon; it is also a complexly visual one. What does whiteness look like, and how might we begin to trace an antiracist history of artistic resistance that works against it? The Image of Whitenessseeks to introduce its reader to some important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, to describe its falsehoods, its paradoxes and its oppressive nature, and to highlight some of the crucial work photographic artists have done to subvert and critique its image. The Image of Whitenessincludes the work of artists Abdul Abdullah, Agata Madejska, Broomberg & Chanarin, Buck Ellison, John Lucas & Claudia Rankine, David Birkin, Hank Willis Thomas, Kajal Nisha Patel, Michelle Dizon & Viet Le, Nancy Burson, Nate Lewis, Libita Clayton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Richard Misrach, Sophie Gabrielle, Stacy Kranitz and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.
Publisher: Spbh Editions
ISBN: 9781916041295
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whiteness From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary "white savior" social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. As various scholars have shown, the technology of the camera is not innocent, and neither are the images it produces. The invention and continuation of the "white race" is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon; it is also a complexly visual one. What does whiteness look like, and how might we begin to trace an antiracist history of artistic resistance that works against it? The Image of Whitenessseeks to introduce its reader to some important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, to describe its falsehoods, its paradoxes and its oppressive nature, and to highlight some of the crucial work photographic artists have done to subvert and critique its image. The Image of Whitenessincludes the work of artists Abdul Abdullah, Agata Madejska, Broomberg & Chanarin, Buck Ellison, John Lucas & Claudia Rankine, David Birkin, Hank Willis Thomas, Kajal Nisha Patel, Michelle Dizon & Viet Le, Nancy Burson, Nate Lewis, Libita Clayton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Richard Misrach, Sophie Gabrielle, Stacy Kranitz and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.
Power and Pathos
Author: Jens M. Deahner
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.
Our America
Author: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher: Giles
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.
Publisher: Giles
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.
A Site of Struggle
Author: Sampada Aranke
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209278
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209278
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.
Race-ing Art History
Author: Kymberly N. Pinder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136056661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing both. Each essay in this collection is a response to this vision, to the distant mirror of looking at the other.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136056661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing both. Each essay in this collection is a response to this vision, to the distant mirror of looking at the other.
Essays on Physiognomy
Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiognomy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
After Silence
Author: Avram Finkelstein
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520351339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used—and misused—to brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and other protest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520351339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used—and misused—to brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and other protest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.
The Racial Imaginary
Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934200797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Frank, fearless letters from poets of all colors, genders, classes about the material conditions under which their art is made.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934200797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Frank, fearless letters from poets of all colors, genders, classes about the material conditions under which their art is made.
Phantom Sightings
Author: Rita González
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520255630
Category : Mexican American arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive examination of Chicano art in the early twentieth century, exploring the current tendency of experimentation and how the movement has shifted away from painting and political statements, and toward conceptual art, performance, film, photography, and media-based art; includes artist portfolios and a chronology of significant moments in Chicano history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520255630
Category : Mexican American arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive examination of Chicano art in the early twentieth century, exploring the current tendency of experimentation and how the movement has shifted away from painting and political statements, and toward conceptual art, performance, film, photography, and media-based art; includes artist portfolios and a chronology of significant moments in Chicano history.
Ken Gonzales-Day
Author: Ken Gonzales-Day
Publisher: Ken Gonzales-Day
ISBN: 1732309434
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Surface Tens-ion is a photogr-aphic record of murals, signs, and ma,-k-making in LA. Los Angeles-based artist Ken Gonzales-Day spent fifteen months documenting the city that many have called the "Mural Capital of the World." Surface Tensfon: Murals Signs, and Mark-Making was an exhibition organized by the Skirball Cultural Center as a part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative o'" the Getty Foundation. The exh"bition included 143 photographs exploring LA's streets and alleys, revealing both the joys and frustrations of the city. These murals celebrate local pride and cultural identity but also tell difficult histories of struggle and violence. The social history of muralism in LA runs deep. Since the days of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco, murals have provided a forum for artists to express their greatest concerns. Artists today continue to use murals as sites of political provocation. They reimagine elements from pop culture, advertise for small businesses, and beautify the streets. Murals also serve as jarring backdrops to the current crisis of mass homelessness and gentrification-induced displacement. They are as complex and diverse as the city itself.
Publisher: Ken Gonzales-Day
ISBN: 1732309434
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Surface Tens-ion is a photogr-aphic record of murals, signs, and ma,-k-making in LA. Los Angeles-based artist Ken Gonzales-Day spent fifteen months documenting the city that many have called the "Mural Capital of the World." Surface Tensfon: Murals Signs, and Mark-Making was an exhibition organized by the Skirball Cultural Center as a part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative o'" the Getty Foundation. The exh"bition included 143 photographs exploring LA's streets and alleys, revealing both the joys and frustrations of the city. These murals celebrate local pride and cultural identity but also tell difficult histories of struggle and violence. The social history of muralism in LA runs deep. Since the days of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco, murals have provided a forum for artists to express their greatest concerns. Artists today continue to use murals as sites of political provocation. They reimagine elements from pop culture, advertise for small businesses, and beautify the streets. Murals also serve as jarring backdrops to the current crisis of mass homelessness and gentrification-induced displacement. They are as complex and diverse as the city itself.