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To describe a life : notes from the intersection of art and race terror

Title: To describe a life : notes from the intersection of art and race terror / Darby English.
Author: English, Darby, 1974-
Publication: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press in association with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, [2019]

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Description

xiii, 134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm.

Summary

"By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and love-as a resource 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 that address themes of racial violence and representation idiosyncratically, neither offering solutions nor accommodaing shallow 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. For English, the consideration of art is a paradigm of social life, because art is something we must share. 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"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art

Uniform Title

Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art.

Alternative Title

Notes from the intersection of art and race terror

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-129) and index.

Contents

To describe a life -- The painter and the police -- Differing, drawn -- The King's two bodies.

Call Number

JQF 23-1131

ISBN

0300230389
9780300230383

LCCN

2017961774
40028981180

OCLC

1089275359

Author

English, Darby, 1974- author.

Title

To describe a life : notes from the intersection of art and race terror / Darby English.

Publisher

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press in association with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art

Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-129) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Standard Identifier

40028981180

Research Call Number

JQF 23-1131

Sc F 19-62

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