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Perceptual drift : Black art and an ethics of looking

Title
Perceptual drift : Black art and an ethics of looking / Key Jo Lee ; with contributions by Erica Moiah James, Robin Coste Lewis, Christina Sharpe.
Publication
  • Cleveland, OH : The Cleveland Museum of Art, [2022]
  • New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Lee, Key Jo
  • Griswold, William
  • James, Erica Moiah
  • Lewis, Robin Coste
  • Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, issuing body.
Description
80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm
Summary
'Perceptual Drift' offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. In its chapters, leading Black scholars from multiple disciplines deploy materialist approaches to challenge the limits of canonic art history, rooted as it is in social and racial inequities. The opening essay by Key Jo Lee introduces the concept of "perceptual drift": a means of exploring the matter of Blackness, or Blackness as matter in art and scholarship. Christina Sharpe examines Rho I (1977) by Jack Whitten; Lee explores Lorna Simpson's Cure/Heal (1992); Robin Coste Lewis analyzes Ellen Gallagher's Bouffant Pride (2003); and Erica Moiah James considers Simone Leigh's Las Meninas (2019). This approach seeks to transform how art history is written, introduce readers to complex objects and theoretical frameworks, illuminate meanings and untold histories, and simultaneously celebrate and open new entry points into Black art.
Alternative Title
Black art and an ethics of looking
Subject
  • Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018
  • Simpson, Lorna, 1960-
  • Gallagher, Ellen, 1965-
  • Leigh, Simone
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • African American art
  • African American aesthetics
  • Art, Black
  • Art > Moral and ethical aspects
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Director's foreword / William M. Griswold -- Introduction / Key Jo Lee -- "To decode the full spectrum": Jack Whitten's Rho I / Christina Sharpe -- An approach to Lorna Simpson's Cure/Heal / Key Jo Lee -- "Spit-bite" notes in conversation with Ellen Gallagher's Bouffant Pride: an introduction / Robin Coste Lewis -- A gust of grace: Simone Leigh's Las Meninas / Erica Moiah James.
Call Number
Sc G 23-44
ISBN
  • 0300263929
  • 9780300263923
LCCN
2022938923
OCLC
1269201893
Title
Perceptual drift : Black art and an ethics of looking / Key Jo Lee ; with contributions by Erica Moiah James, Robin Coste Lewis, Christina Sharpe.
Publisher
Cleveland, OH : The Cleveland Museum of Art, [2022]
Distributor
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Lee, Key Jo, contributor.
Griswold, William, writer of foreword.
James, Erica Moiah, contributor.
Lewis, Robin Coste, contributor.
Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth, contributor.
Cleveland Museum of Art, issuing body.
Research Call Number
Sc G 23-44
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