Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art

Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art - Paperback

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Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art - Paperback

Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art - Paperback

by Nana Adusei-Poku
$81.00
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Book Overview

In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas - and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.
ISBN9783837652949
Author Nana Adusei-Poku
PublisherTranscript Publishing
GenreNews & politics, Education, and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages218
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Nana Adusei-Poku

Nana Adusei-Poku (PhD) is a Senior Academic Advisor and Luma Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art at Bard College. Her main research interests are cultural shifts and how they articulate themselves through the intersections of art, politics, and popular culture; artistic productions from the Black diasporas and critical pedagogy in relationship to decolonial aesthetics. She has articulated these interests through her academic work, the development of performative Lectures & Workshops as well as curatorial projects. Her articles have been published in Nka- Journal of Contemporary African Art, eflux, Kunstforum International, Flashart!, L'Internationale, multidudes, Darkmatter, Afterall and Yale Theater Magazine a.o. and translated into English, German, Portuguese, French and Swedish.

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