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Rediscovering Black portraiture

Title
  1. Rediscovering Black portraiture / Peter Brathwaite ; with contributions by Cheryl Finley, Temi Odumosu, and Mark Sealy.
Published by
  1. Los Angeles, California : Getty Publications, [2023]
  2. ©2023
Author
  1. Brathwaite, Peter

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Additional authors
  1. Finley, Cheryl
  2. Odumosu, Temi
  3. Sealy, Mark
Description
  1. 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color), photographs (chiefly color); 25 cm
Summary
  1. Join Peter Brathwaite on an extraordinary journey through representations of Black subjects in Western art, from medieval Europe through the present day.Rediscovering Black Portraiture collects more than fifty of Brathwaite's most intriguing re-creations. Introduced by the author and framed by contributions from experts in art history and visual culture, this fascinating book offers a nuanced look at the complexities and challenges of building identity within the African diaspora and how such forces have informed Black portraits over time. Artworks featured include The Adoration of the Magi by Georges Trubert, Portrait of an Unknown Man by Jan Mostaert, Rice n Peas by Sonia Boyce, Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, and many more. This volume also invites readers behind the scenes, offering a glimpse of the elegant artifice of Brathwaite's props, setup, and process. An urgent and compelling exploration of embodiment, representation, and agency, Rediscovering Black Portraiture serves to remind us that Black subjects have been portrayed in art for nearly a millennium and that their stories demand to be told.
Subject
  1. Personnes noires dans l'art
  2. Portraits, European
  3. Portraits
  4. 1300-2099
  5. ART / General
  6. Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Ouvrages illustrés
  7. Personnes noires dans l'art > Ouvrages illustrés
  8. Personnes noires > Portraits
  9. Portraits européens
  10. Black people > Race identity > Pictorial works
  11. Black people > Portraits
  12. Black people in art > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  1. Portraits.
Contents
  1. Prologue / Peter Brathwaite -- Act 1 -- Feeling in the dark : rediscovering Black portraiture as speculative metadata / Temi Odumosu -- Act 2 -- The imagined museum : a conversation about erasure, encounter, and entanglement / Mark Sealy and Peter Brathwaite -- Act 3 -- Encore / Cheryl Finley -- Backstage.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.