In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class; they challenged viewers to accept personal responsibility for xenophobia and discrimination and the conditions that allowed them to persist. Piper's work confront...
Queens Are Born Curly Kinky Cute (Curly Kinky Cute, #3)
by Melanin Power
On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. The Freedom Principle, which accompanies an exhibition on the topic at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, traces their history and shows how it continues to inform contemporary artists around the world. The book coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement...
The Adventures of an Awesome 2nd Grader
by My African American School Supplies
McArthur Binion combines collage, drawing, and painting to create autobiographical abstractions. He paints minimalist grids and patterns over copies of his personal documents and photographs, from his birth certificate and images of his childhood home to pages from his hand written address books and original photographs of his hand. This book explores Binion's DNA series and includes more than 80 of his paintings and works on paper as well as essays investigating this series through the lens of...
The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
by Caroline Brown
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual artists as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Wa...
I Am Black Woman Beautiful.magic. intelligent. resilient. love innovative powerful. influential.unapologetic.
by Black Month Gifts Publishing
