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Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art

Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art

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Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art

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Nana Adusei-Poku. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2021.

218 pp. Moderately Illustrated (chiefly col.). 25 x 17 cm. In English. Paperbound.

ISBN 9783837652949

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.

Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Criticism/Theory ; Several Fine Arts Media (Western) -- African American Artists --

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