Abstractionist Aesthetics

Name: Abstractionist Aesthetics
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781479818365
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Artistic Form and Social Critique in African-American Culture

Autor: Phillip Harper

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing...

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Autor

Phillip Harper

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2015

Stránek

256

EAN

9781479818365

ISBN

1479818364

Enbook ID

09282071

Vydavatel

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hmotnost

574

Rozměry

229 x 154 x 21

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In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the "proper" depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism--a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for "positive" representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.

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