Death's futurity : the visual life of black power / Sampada Aranke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aranke, Sampada, author.

Series:

Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Panther Party.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Black Arts movement--United States--History--20th century.

Black Arts movement.

Political art--United States--History--20th century.

Political art.

African Americans in art.

African American art--History--20th century.

African American art.

Politics in art.

Social problems in art.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 186 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Art historian and critic Sampada Aranke's Death's Futurity considers the importance of visual representations of death and corpses to the project of Black liberation, specifically for the Black Panther Party. Aranke uses photography, documentary films, journalistic print media, and political posters to construct a visual history of 1960s and 1970s Black radicalism. These archival objects all center death in some way-sometimes graphically-and she considers how these objects put forward a way of imagining Black futurity and liberation from the position of death. The book consists of three main chapters that critically analyze the murders of three Black Panther Party members-Bobby Hutton (1968), Fred Hampton (1969), and George Jackson (1971)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Visual Life of Black Power

"1,000 Bobby Huttons"

Fred Hampton and the Political Life of Objects

George Jackson's Murder and Fugitive Imaginaries

The United States of Attica.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Aranke, Sampada Death's futurity

ISBN:

9781478019305

1478019301

9781478016663

1478016663

OCLC:

1341210636