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To describe a life : notes from the intersection of art and race terror / Darby English.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- English, Darby, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Richard D. Cohen lectures at Harvard University.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American art--21st century.
- African American art.
- African Americans in art.
- African Americans--Violence against--United States.
- African Americans.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Police brutality--United States.
- Police brutality.
- Police in art.
- Racism in art.
- Violence in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 pages) : 69 illustrations (chiefly color)
- Other Title:
- Also known as: To describe a life : essays at the intersection of art and race terror
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, March 2019.
- Summary:
- "By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and of love-as resources amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in or for our tumultuous present. Addressing themes of racial violence and representation, these idiosyncratic works neither offer solutions nor accommodate simplistic narratives about difference. In Zoe Leonard's Tipping Point, English sees an embodiment of love in the face of brutality; in Kerry James Marshall's untitled 2015 portrait of a black male police officer, a greatly fraught subject treated without apparent judgment; in Pope. L's Skin Set Drawings, a life project undertaken to challenge codified uses of difference, color, and language; and, in a replica of the Lorraine Motel-the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968-a monument to the unfinished business of the integrated nonviolent movement for Civil Rights. These works unsettle and refuse to satisfy any particular political demand. Powerful, challenging, and timely, To Describe a Life is an invitation to rethink what life in ongoing crisis is and can be-and, indeed, to discover how art can help"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- To describe a life
- The painter and the police
- Differing, drawn
- The King's two bodies.
- Notes:
- Association for the Study of Arts of the Present Book Prize, 2020
- College Art Association Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, 2020
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on March 5, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300247541
- 0300247540
- OCLC:
- 1089198966
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