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Great force / [contributors, Amber Esseiva, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Rebecca Walker, The Racial Imaginary Institute ; artists, Radcliffe Bailey, Benae Beamon, Kevin Beasley [and twenty others] ; authors, James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Walker [and three others] ; curator & editor, Amber Esseiva].
Fine Arts Library NX180.R3 E874 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esseiva, Amber, contributor, curator, editor.
- Walker, Rebecca, author.
- Baldwin, James, author.
- Douglass, Frederick, author.
- The Racial Imaginary Institute (New Haven, Connecticut), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Art--Exhibitions.
- Race relations.
- Art and race--Exhibitions.
- Art and race.
- Art, American--Exhibitions.
- Art, American.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond, VA : Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Catalogue to accompany the exhibition Great Force, curated by Amber Esseiva. Great Force will present work by an intergenerational group of artists who explore, complicate or make complex, the persistent force of black-white racial constructs in the United States. The exhibition, related program, and illustrated publication will catalyze public discussions about race, how to render new representations of the oppressed and the empowered and how artworks can become tools in a struggle to appear. Featuring artists Radcliffe Bailey, Alexandra Bell, Benae Beamon, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Tony Cokes, Sedrick Chisom, Bethany Collins, Aria Dean, Tomashi Jackson, Richard Kennedy, Charlotte Lagarde, Glenn Ligon, Troy Michie, Mores McWreath, Shani Peters, Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Claudia Rankine's The Racial Imaginary Institute, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Xaviera Simmons, Sable Elyse Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Great force / Amber Esseiva
- The racial imaginary institute
- Leaving the intellectual plantation / Rebecca Walker
- Addressing appearance / Nicholas Mirzoeff
- The color line / Frederick Douglas
- White man's guilt / James Baldwin
- The history of white people / Nell Irvin Painter.
- Notes:
- "Published to accompany the exhibition Great Force, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and curated by Associate Curator Amber Esseiva. The exhibition was on view October 5, 2019-January 5, 2020."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781733784511
- 1733784519
- OCLC:
- 1179157723
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