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A site of struggle : American art against anti-Black violence

Title
A site of struggle : American art against anti-Black violence / edited by Janet Dees ; with contributions by Sampada Aranke, Courtney R. Baker, Huey Copeland, Leslie M. Harris, LaCharles Ward.
Publication
  • Evanston, Illinois : Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University ; Princeton : In association with Princeton University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Dees, Janet
  • Copeland, Huey
  • Aranke, Sampada
  • Baker, Courtney
  • Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965-
  • Ward, LaCharles, 1988-
  • Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Description
133 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm
Summary
Examines the vast array of art produced by African Americans in response to the continuing impact of anti-Black violence and how it is used to protest, process, mourn and memorialize those events.
Subject
  • African Americans in art > Exhibitions
  • African Americans > Violence against > Exhibitions > Pictorial works
  • Black people > Violence against > Exhibitions
  • Black people in art > Exhibitions
  • Violence in art > Exhibitions
  • African Americans > Social conditions > Exhibitions
  • African American art > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • African American art > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Racism > United States > History > Exhibitions
  • Art > Political aspects > United States > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American
  • Black people in art
  • Violence in art
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January 26-July 10, 2022, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, August 13-November 6, 2022.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-131).
Contents
Preface / Huey Copeland -- A site of struggle / Janet Dees -- Making racial violence visible / Leslie M. Harris -- Functional abstractions : sensorial afterlives of the Black body / Sampada Aranke -- Black redaction, Black evidence : another testimony of Black life / LaCharles Ward -- Pausing at the threshold / Courtney R. Baker.
Call Number
Sc+ F 22-297
ISBN
  • 9780691209272
  • 0691209278
LCCN
2021947783
OCLC
1311488428
Title
A site of struggle : American art against anti-Black violence / edited by Janet Dees ; with contributions by Sampada Aranke, Courtney R. Baker, Huey Copeland, Leslie M. Harris, LaCharles Ward.
Publisher
Evanston, Illinois : Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University ; Princeton : In association with Princeton University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-131).
Added Author
Dees, Janet, editor, writer of added commentary.
Copeland, Huey, writer of preface.
Aranke, Sampada, writer of added commentary.
Baker, Courtney, writer of added commentary.
Copeland, Huey, writer of added commentary.
Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965- writer of added commentary.
Ward, LaCharles, 1988- writer of added commentary.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 22-297
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