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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Phillip Brian Harper |
ISBN: | 9781479865437 1479865435 9781479818365 1479818364 |
OCLC Number: | 971145988 |
Description: | 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series Title: | NYU series in social and cultural analysis |
Responsibility: | Phillip Brian Harper. |
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"Opens up possibilities for revising our notions of representation.Abstractionist Aestheticsis a valuable contribution to ongoing conversations about race, politics, and aesthetics." * ASAP/Journal * "[C]ompelling. It shows how art can be a powerful instrument for reflecting how a social identity can be made to assume a certain social meaning and how it can be used to question the identity in this way making it malleable to transformation. Anyone interested in identity representation and culture, particularly of an ethnic or racial nature, will find much to inform and challenge them in Harpers tightly argued and well-referenced book." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "A riveting polemic on the politics of abstraction in black art. Moving among examples in a range of medialiterature, music, visual art, and filmwith fine-tuned readings,Abstractionist Aestheticsis a devastating critique of the all-too-common presumption that variants of realism are the only effective option for a black art that would respond to the history of racial deprivation." -- Brent Hayes Edwards,author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature,Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalis "Beautifully argued with unexpected twists and turns, Phillip Brian Harper exposes how our prefabricated notions of the sounds, sights, and feeling of blackness dictate our often parochial reactions to artistic efforts to engage and broaden the places assigned to black Americans. A momentous and magnificent book." -- Michael Awkward, Gayl Jones Professor of Afro-American Literature and Culture, University of Michigan Read more...

