A black gaze : artists changing how we see / Tina M. Campt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campt, Tina, 1964- author.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Black.

Arts, Black--21st century.

Arts, Black.

Arts and society--History--21st century.

Arts and society.

Physical Description:

x, 219 pages : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, c2021.

Summary:

"In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity. Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present." --paraphrased from publisher.

Contents:

Preclude to a Black Gaze

Intimate Strangers

Black (Counter)Gravity

Ode to the Visual Frequency of Black Life

The Slow Lives of Still-Moving-Images

Sounding A Black Feminist Chorus

Adjacency and the Poethics of Care

The Haptic Frequencies of Radical Black Joy.

Notes:

Contains bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.

ISBN:

9780262365666

9780262045872