Taking Stakes in the Unknown
Tracing Post-Black Art
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas – and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Contents
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Acknowledgement
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I. Introduction
Seiten 9 - 40 -
II. Destabilizing Meaning
1. The Textures of History
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2. What is the script of your time?
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3. Economies of the Double-bind
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III. Historical Entanglements of Black Revolutionary Women
1. De-Interpellating Interpellation—Visual Disobediences
Seiten 89 - 92 -
2. How do I look? (Very good, I must say I am amazed!)
Seiten 92 - 104 -
3. O my Body, will always remain in question!— Reviewing the Fanonian Moment
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IV. Heterotemporality as a Way of Understanding the Contemporary
1. Reclaiming our time
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2. Riffs on Real Time and the present that is fleeting though captured
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3. Rewind Selecta
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4. Hetero-temporality
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V. Paradox Synchronicities
1. Contextualization
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2. IWHISHIWAS or WISHIWASHI ?
Seiten 134 - 143 -
3. From Leitkultur to Leightkultur
Seiten 143 - 154 -
VI. Abstract Facts
1. Enter and Exit the New Negro
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2. Enter and Exit the New Negro—From Invisible Visibilities
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3. Enter the New Negro
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4. Ambiguity as Chance—Abstraction as Means of Identity
Seiten 169 - 182 -
VII. Post-Post-black
Seiten 183 - 192 -
VIII. Bibliography
Seiten 193 - 218
27 August 2021, 218 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5294-9
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