Black Gaze Artists Changing How We See by Tina M Campt

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Black Gaze Artists Changing How We See by Tina M Campt | 7.43 MB
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Title: A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See
Author: Tina M. Campt
Year: 2021​



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Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see Blackness in particular-anew.
In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work-from Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Kahlil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson-requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.

Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the...

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