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In open contempt : confronting White supremacy in art and public space / by Weathersby, Irvin,Jr.,author.;
Prologue: Losers and trophies -- Plantation visitations -- 1811 Street -- A lesson before dying -- "Have you seen our sisters?" -- Captain Blackman -- A day in the life of chains -- The deities of water and canebrake -- Open caskets -- Retold in present tense -- Epilogue: "art makes better humans"."A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces"--
Subjects: Racism and the arts; Arts and society; White supremacy (Social structure);
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 18
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How to see a work of art in total darkness / by English, Darby,1974-author.(CARDINAL)782690; MIT Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)175217;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-344) and index.Beyond black representational space -- A new context for reconstruction: some crises of landscape in Kara Walker's silhouette installations -- Fantasias of the museum -- Painting problems -- Aesthetics of dispossession: William Pope. L's performance interventions.Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. Refusing to grant racial blackness--his metaphorical "total darkness"--Primacy over his subjects' other concerns and contexts, he brings to light problems and possibilities that arise when questions of artistic priority and freedom come into contact, or even conflict, with those of cultural obligation. English examines the integrative and interdisciplinary strategies of five contemporary artists--Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and William Pope. L--stressing the ways in which this work at once reflects and alters our view of its informing context: the advent of postmodernity in late twentieth-century American art and culture. The necessity for "black art" comes both from antiblack racism and resistances to it, from both segregation and efforts to imagine an autonomous domain of black culture. Yet to judge by the work of many contemporary practitioners, English writes, black art is increasingly less able--and black artists less willing--to maintain its standing as a realm apart. Through close examinations of Walker's controversial silhouettes' insubordinate reply to pictorial tradition, Wilson's and Julien's distinct approaches to institutional critique, Ligon's text paintings' struggle with modernisms, and Pope. L's vexing performance interventions, English grounds his contention that to understand this work is to displace race from its central location in our interpretation and to grant right of way to the work's historical, cultural, and aesthetic specificity.
Subjects: African American art; African American artists.; Racism and the arts.;
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Race and racism in nineteenth-century art : the ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis / by Woods, Naurice Frank,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)226664; Dimock, George,author of foreword.(CARDINAL)265210; University Press of Mississippi,publisher.(CARDINAL)853511;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821-1872) and Edward Bannister (1828-1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844-1907) each became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art makers of color during the antebellum period, they experienced numerous incidents of racism that severely hampered their pursuits of a profession that many in the mainstream considered the highest form of social cultivation. Despite barriers imposed upon them due to their racial inheritance, these artists shared a common cause in demanding acceptance alongside their white contemporaries as capable painters and sculptors on local, regional, and international levels. Author Naurice Frank Woods Jr. provides an in-depth examination of the strategies deployed by Duncanson, Bannister, and Lewis that enabled them to not only overcome prevailing race and gender inequality, but also achieve a measure of success that eventually placed them in the top rank of nineteenth-century American art. Unfortunately, the racism that hampered these three artists throughout their careers ultimately denied them their rightful place as significant contributors to the development of American art. Dominant art historians and art critics excluded them in their accounts of the period. In this volume, Woods restores their artistic legacies and redeems their memories, introducing these significant artists to rightful, new audiences"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872.; Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901.; Lewis, Edmonia.; African American artists; Racism and the arts;
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Invisible men : the trailblazing Black artists of comic books / by Quattro, Ken,author.(CARDINAL)851224;
Introduction / by Stanford W. Carpenter -- Seeing the unseen / by Ken Quattro -- Adolphus Barreaux Gripon -- Elmer Cecil Stoner -- Robert Savon Pious -- Jay Paul Jackson -- Owen Charles Middleton -- Elton Clay Fax & George Dewey Lipscomb -- Clarence Matthew Baker -- Alvin Carl Hollingsworth -- Ezra Clyde Jackson, Alfonso Greene -- Eugene Bilbrew -- Orrin C. Evans, George J. Evans Jr., John H. Terrell, William H. Smith, Leonard Cooper -- Calvin Levi Massey -- Afterword / by Ken Quattro.Stories of Black artists who drew -- mostly covertly behind the scenes -- superhero, horror, and romance comics in the early years of the industry. The life stories of each man's personal struggles and triumphs are represented as they broke through into a world formerly occupied only by whites. Using primary source material from World War II-era Black newspapers and magazines, this book profiles pioneers like E.C. Stoner, a descendant of a person enslaved by George Washington, who became a renowned fine artist of the Harlem Renaissance and the first Black artist to draw comic books; Owen Middleton, who was sentenced to life in Sing Sing; and Matt Baker, the most revered of the Black artists, whose art spotlights stunning women and men, and who drew the first groundbreaking Black comic book hero, Vooda! Includes examples of each artist's work, with full stories from mainstream comic books with rare titles like All-Negro Comics and Negro Heroes, plus unpublished artist's photos.
Subjects: Art criticism.; Biographies.; Artists, Black; Comic books, strips, etc.; African American cartoonists; Racism and the arts;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Voice of freedom [videorecording] / by Goldsberry, Renée Elise,1971-narrator.(CARDINAL)347262; Harrold, Emily,television producer.; Rapley, Rob,screenwriter,television director,television producer.; Apograph Productions,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)309769; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.(CARDINAL)189964;
Director of photography, Jeremy Brockman ; editor, Steve J. Golliday ; music, Tom Phillips.Narrator, Renee Elise Goldsberry.Follow the story of singer Marian Anderson, whose talent broke down barriers around the world. Narrated by Ren©♭e Elise Goldsberry, Voice of Freedom interweaves Anderson's rich life story with this landmark moment in history, exploring fundamental questions about talent, race, fame, democracy and the American soul.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, wide screen presentation, NTSC, stereo.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993.; African American women singers; Civil rights; Race discrimination; Racism and the arts; Singers; Women singers; Women;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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We rise, we resist, we raise our voices [sound recording] / by Hudson, Wade,editor.(CARDINAL)369122; Hudson, Cheryl Willis,editor.(CARDINAL)771744; Turpin, Bahni,narrator.(CARDINAL)353504; Lockard, Guy,narrator.(CARDINAL)833430;
Read by Bahni Turpin & Guy Lockard.What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice to young activists.8-12 years.3-7.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Prejudices; Racism; Prejudices.; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The art of the commonplace : the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry / by Berry, Wendell,1934-author.(CARDINAL)122554; Wirzba, Norman,editor,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)268845;
Introduction: The challenge of Berry's agrarian vision / Norman Wirzba -- A native hill -- The unsettling of America -- Racism and the economy -- Feminism, the body, and the machine -- Think little -- The body and the earth -- Men and women in search of common ground -- Health is membership -- Sex, economy, freedom, and community -- People, land and community -- Conservation and local economy -- Economy and pleasure -- Two economies -- The whole horse -- The idea of a local economy -- A bad big idea -- Solving for pattern -- The use of energy -- The gift of good land -- Christianity and the survival of creation -- The pleasures of eathing.
Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Environmental education.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival / by Asim, Jabari,1962-author.(CARDINAL)773320;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193).Getting it twisted -- The elements of strut -- Shooting negroes -- Color him father -- The seer and the seen : on reading and being -- Brick relics -- The thing itself -- Of love and struggle : the limits of respectability -- Selected bibliography."Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison [calls] the 'master narrative' and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight ... essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body"--Front flap.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Racism; Restorative justice; Racism.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Racism in American public life : a call to action / by Cole, Johnnetta B.,author.(CARDINAL)523162;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131)."Cole examines the influence of race and racism on education, particularly the liberal arts, and the wider implication for American society specifically looking at three groups: first, further marginalized groups within Black communities, such as poor and/or queer people; secondly, institutions of higher education in leading conversations on race and racism; and thirdly, how racist forces impact higher education making it a site for transformation and action"--
Subjects: Racism in higher education; African Americans; Educational equalization;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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We rise, we resist, we raise our voices / by Hudson, Wade,editor.(CARDINAL)369122; Hudson, Cheryl Willis,editor.(CARDINAL)771744; Bryan, Ashley,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)206052;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art, poetry, and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice and comfort to young activists.850LJane Addams Children's Book Award Honor book for Older children, 2019.
Subjects: Essays.; Poetry.; Prejudices; Racism; Minorities; Racism.;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 47
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