Taking Stakes in the Unknown E-Book

Nana Adusei-Poku

• Herausgeber: transcript Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Image
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

In 2001, Freestyle , a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown , Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas – and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.