Forms of Blackness : Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Cécile.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black race.

Black people in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Forms of Blackness examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. Cécile Bishop offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and presses readers to question how to interpret what they see.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One. Blackness Unseen: The Liberation of Paris, in Black and White

Chapter Two. Portrait of Madeleine Versus Portrait of a Negress? Portraiture, Race, and Subjectivity in Marie-Guillemine Benoist's Painting

Chapter Three. The Becoming-Insect of Frantz Fanon: Blackness, Form, and Lived Experience

Chapter Four. Photographic Possessions: Summoning the Diaspora in Samuel Fosso's African Spirits

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Sources

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4780-6234-7

OCLC:

1570243899