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Battleground : African American art, 1985-2015

Title: Battleground : African American art, 1985-2015 / Celeste-Marie Bernier.
Author: Bernier, Celeste-Marie
Publication: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]

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Description

xii, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

"Battleground is the first illustrated history of contemporary African American art. The volume offers an in-depth examination of twenty-five Black artists, discussing their artworks, practices, and philosophies, as expressed in their own words. Celeste-Marie Bernier has done extensive archival work in sources that have not been studied before, and her research provides a foundation for an intellectual and cultural history of contemporary African American artists and art movements from 1990 to the present. The wealth of quoted material-published interviews, artist statements, and autobiographical essays-should inform and inspire additional research in the years to come. Battleground examines the paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installation, digital, and performance art produced by twenty-five Black artists living and working in the United States over the last three decades. The artists studied in this book include Emma Amos, Radcliffe Bailey, Mary Lee Bendolph, Chakaia Booker, Beverly Buchanan, Willie Cole, Leonardo Drew, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Myra Greene, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ronald Lockett, Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Lorraine O'Grady, Jefferson Pinder, Debra Priestly, Winfred Rembert, Nellie Mae Rowe, Alison Saar, Dread Scott, Clarissa T. Sligh, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Mickalene Thomas, Nari Ward, and Pat Ward Williams"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Visual works.
Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- "Can hate be transformed? A visual call to arms -- "We have power" : visibilizing the invisible / Emma Amos, Alison Saar, Radcliffe Bailey, Willie Cole -- Memorials to "My Skin" : ancestral storytelling in slavery and freedom / Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary Lee Bendolph, Whitfield Lovell, Beverly Buchanan -- "Sites of resistance" : representing, remembering, and reimagining struggle / Clarissa T. Sligh, Pat Ward Williams, Lyle Ashton Harris, Myra Greene -- "Prepared to die" : empowering beauty and heroicizing history / Winfred Rembert, Kerry James Marshall, Debra Priestly, Mickalene Thomas -- "A tool and weapon" : monuments of mortality, performances of protest, and labors of liberation / Lorraine O'Grady, Nari Ward, Chakaia Booker, Leonardo Drew, Jefferson Pinder, Dread Scott -- "Her name was Laura Nelson" : art activism is suffering, sacrifice, and survival -- Notes -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

9780820360478
0820360473

LCCN

2022031923
99996183797
40031727201
40031818746

OCLC

on1245472972
1245472972
SCSB-14482097

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries