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Perceptual drift : Black art and an ethics of looking / Key Jo Lee ; with contributions by Erica Moiah James, Robin Coste Lewis, Christina Sharpe.
Fine Arts Library N6538.B53 L44 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Key Jo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018. Rho I.
- Whitten, Jack.
- Simpson, Lorna, 1960- Cure/Heal.
- Simpson, Lorna.
- Gallagher, Ellen, 1965- Bouffant pride.
- Gallagher, Ellen.
- Leigh, Simone. Meninas.
- Leigh, Simone.
- Cleveland Museum of Art--Catalogs.
- Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Art, Black--History and criticism.
- Art, Black.
- Art--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Art.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
- Other Title:
- Black art and an ethics of looking
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2022]
- Summary:
- 'Perceptual Drift' offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. In its chapters, leading Black scholars from multiple disciplines deploy materialist approaches to challenge the limits of canonic art history, rooted as it is in social and racial inequities. The opening essay by Key Jo Lee introduces the concept of "perceptual drift": a means of exploring the matter of Blackness, or Blackness as matter in art and scholarship. Christina Sharpe examines Rho I (1977) by Jack Whitten; Lee explores Lorna Simpson's Cure/Heal (1992); Robin Coste Lewis analyzes Ellen Gallagher's Bouffant Pride (2003); and Erica Moiah James considers Simone Leigh's Las Meninas (2019). This approach seeks to transform how art history is written, introduce readers to complex objects and theoretical frameworks, illuminate meanings and untold histories, and simultaneously celebrate and open new entry points into Black art.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword / William M. Griswold
- Introduction / Key Jo Lee
- "To decode the full spectrum": Jack Whitten's Rho I / Christina Sharpe
- An approach to Lorna Simpson's Cure/Heal / Key Jo Lee
- "Spit-bite" notes in conversation with Ellen Gallagher's Bouffant Pride: an introduction / Robin Coste Lewis
- A gust of grace: Simone Leigh's Las Meninas / Erica Moiah James.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0300263929
- 9780300263923
- OCLC:
- 1269201893
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