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Abstractionist aesthetics : artistic form and social critique in African American culture /
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the 'proper' depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism - a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the 'proper' depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism - a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Créditos de Producción: | Book design and composition by Nicole Hayward. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479808878 1479808873 9781479867981 1479867985 |