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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Against positive images
- Black personhood in the maw of abstraction
- Historical cadence and the nitty-gritty effect
- Telling it slant
- Coda: The literary advantage.