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A black gaze : artists changing how we see / Tina M. Campt.

by Campt, Tina, 1964-

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The MIT Press, 2021.

Aesthetics, Black.

Arts and society.

American essays -- 21st century.

9780262045872 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Artists changing how we see

219 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In 'A Black Gaze,' Tina Campt Black -- a feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art -- examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work--from Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Kahlil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson--requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity. Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. The artists whose work Campt explores challenge the fundamental disparity that defines the dominant viewing practice: the notion that Blackness is the elsewhere (or nowhere) of whiteness. These artists create images that flow, that resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life in radical ways. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze."--From publisher.

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