Abstractionist aesthetics: artistic form and social critique in African American culture
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New York ; London
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[2015]
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Beschreibung: | 280 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele |
ISBN: | 9781479865437 9781479818365 |
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adam_text | “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 ef-
forts 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
“A riveting polemic on the politics of abstraction in black art. Moving among examples in a range of media-
literature, music, visual art, and film—with fine-tuned readings, Abstractionist Aesthetics is 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, Transiation, and the
Rise of Black Internationalism
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 abstraction-
ism—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 ame-
nable to transformation.
Arguing against the need for “positive representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism
as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal
site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African
American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic forms, including the visual work of
Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings
of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial black-
ness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended,
and abstractionism rendered as the most powerful modality for black representation.
PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University, where
he teaches in the Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and of English. He is the author of the
books Private Affairs (NYU Press), Are We Not Men? and Framing the Margins.
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title | Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in African American culture |
title_auth | Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in African American culture |
title_exact_search | Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in African American culture |
title_full | Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in African American culture Phillip Brian Harper |
title_fullStr | Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in African American culture Phillip Brian Harper |
title_full_unstemmed | Abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in African American culture Phillip Brian Harper |
title_short | Abstractionist aesthetics |
title_sort | abstractionist aesthetics artistic form and social critique in african american culture |
title_sub | artistic form and social critique in African American culture |
topic | Wilson, Fred 1954- (DE-588)119213230 gnd Walker, Kara 1969- (DE-588)119536005 gnd African American aesthetics Abstraction African American arts Themes, motives Musik (DE-588)4040802-4 gnd Figuration Kunst (DE-588)4435923-8 gnd Abstraktion (DE-588)4141162-6 gnd Repräsentation (DE-588)4137492-7 gnd Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 gnd Realismus (DE-588)4048680-1 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd |
topic_facet | Wilson, Fred 1954- Walker, Kara 1969- African American aesthetics Abstraction African American arts Themes, motives Musik Figuration Kunst Abstraktion Repräsentation Schwarze Realismus Literatur USA |
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