Abstractionist Aesthetics : Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harper, Phillip Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
African American aesthetics.
Abstraction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
abstraction.
Arts noirs americains > Themes, motifs.
Esthetique noire americaine.
African American arts > Themes, motives.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9781479808878

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