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English
Bloomsbury Academic
14 March 2024
Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell Painter, Mickaella Perina, Kevin Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Claudia Schmuckli, Evie Shockley, Paul C. Taylor, Kara Walker, Simone White, and Mabel O. Wilson.

The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by engaging intersectionally with class, queer sexuality, female embodiment, dance vocabularies, coloniality, Afrodiasporic music, Black post-soul art, Afropessimism, and more. Black aesthetics thus restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms of sensation and imagination in art, culture, design, everyday life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience, identity, and resistance.

Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists, activists, theorists, and others who critique racial inequities, create new forms of interiority and relationality, uncover affective histories, and develop strategies for social justice.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 242mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   760g
ISBN:   9781350294622
ISBN 10:   1350294624
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Michael Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He is President of the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation, editor of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2014, 2nd edition), and author of A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art (2017). Monique Roelofs is Professor of Philosophy of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic (2014) and Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and the World (2020).

Reviews for Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings

"Black Art and Aesthetics is an important collection of cutting-edge essays that explore the possibility of ""revalorizing"" Black aesthetics in ways that embrace both complex continuities and ruptures in the freighted history of aesthetics. The volume assembles writing by some of the most innovative artists and thinkers at the core of black contemporary art history, criticism and practice. * Tina M. Campt, Professor of Humanities, Princeton University, USA * This impressive and vibrant assemblage of artists, poets, and theorists showcases the beauty and brilliance of Black aesthetics. Each investigation buzzes with strategies for creating, living, and being despite difficulty. As a gathering, Black Art and Aesthetics promises to remake how we see the world. * Amber Jamilla Musser, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center, USA * The essays collected in Black Art and Aesthetics represent a comprehensive statement on the continuing vitality of the Black Aesthetic and a revaluation of the cultural forces that have been driving the production of art in the Black Diaspora. Drawing from a gallery of distinguished scholars, poets, and artists, this volume will serve as a model of critical thinking about the Black aesthetic for a long time. * Simon Gikandi, Class of 1943 University Professor of English, Princeton University, USA *"


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