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Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights

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Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights - Murray, Derek Conrad
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What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? In Queering Post-Black Art, Derek Conrad Murray argues that the rise of female, gay and lesbian artists as legitimate African-American creative voices is essential to the development of black art. He considers iconic works by artists including Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas and Kalup Linzy, which question whether it is possible for blackness to evade its ...

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Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights 2015, I.B. Tauris, London

ISBN-13: 9781784532871

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Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights 2015, I.B. Tauris, London

ISBN-13: 9781784532864

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