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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Black artists"”.
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Dr. Eugene Grigsby's Connections to Art, African American Life in the South, and Social Justice Education: Implications for Art Education Curriculum
… 2010), critical race theory, and the notion that artists’ lived experiences of oppression encourage actions and art that challenge injustice (Bey, 2011), this study sought to demonstrate that the lives and works of Black artists from the South in the early 20th Century are pedagogical. Inspired by …
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Black Art Planning: Exhibition Manifesto
Black Art Planning: Exhibition Manifesto, honors the many modes and forms of knowledge that inform Black artists acting as informal planners, designers and urbanists working to harmonize spatial urban realities for marginalized communities. This is a focused introspection of Black liminal realities …
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SAMO©... Pedro Kilkerry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, das pilhagens ou o modus da crítica
… ways literary and cultural critiques approach Black life and artistic production. Based on the “cases” of Pedro Kilkerry, a symbolist poet from Santo Antonio - Bahia, born at the end of the 19th century, “ignored” by Brazilian literary critics, and on the African American visual artist case, …
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AGAINST A SHARP WHITE BACKGROUND: Dialogic and Exhibitionary Practices of Black Contemporary Artists and Curators in Art Museums
This research seeks to better understand how Black artists experience the mainstream art museum. The thesis makes an original contribution to scholarship on curating contemporary art through qualitative analysis of subjective approaches to art museum space. It makes evident responses to …
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Country Quares: (Dis)identification Discourse in Black Country Aesthetic
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways Black women and queer artists and their audiences employ country music as a way to facilitate a reclamation and complication of (Black) Americanness. The data for this study emerges from a qualitative content analysis of six music videos by Black …
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Escrita autoral e poder erótico: a experiência do Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura na periferia sul de São Paulo
… ([1978] 2019), to analyze the epistemologies of black and decolonial feminism, present in the practices and written production of peripheral black artists and activists, members of the Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura, a feminist care and studies group, created in 2015 in Capão Redondo …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… a lens through which to explore how contemporary black artists address negative, inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will focus on the popular trend of referencing historic photographs in revisionist art and explore how Saar's method of including found images and …
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Umthonyama
Umthonyama explores the politics of black queer visibility and contested belonging within the evolving culture of amaXhosa people. Black queer performance practitioners, are practically and theoretically foregrounded in this thesis to demonstrate the sophisticated ways in which we become visible, …
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Vinyle zine: The Execution of the Pedagogy of Pro-Blackness
<p><em>Vinyle</em> zine, is a Black literary magazine pedagogically driven to increase cultural literacy within the African-American community. In order to do this, this magazine must have the foundation of Pro-Blackness as a driving force towards advancing Black people in the ways this platform …
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Producing a Black Oeuvre: Narratives of Black Grassroots Cultural Organizing in Boston
… production in the City of Boston, a vanguard of Black artists and cultural organizers are developing structures and organizations to help local members of Boston’s Black communities steer their own cultural production. This thesis develops an understanding of actions being taken by these …
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My America
… as a reference for what I aspire to be as a Black male in America. The title My America is inspired by a John Biggers book titled My America. These two major influences were significant in making this body of work. I questioned myself, what my America looks like and how others perceive it. In …
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Aspects of twentieth century black South African art, up to 1980. Volume I
… of Westernization on the development of black South African art, culminating in a form of art referred to as urban black art. While the essential aim of this dissertation is to document selected twentieth century artists and their works prior to 1980, it is felt that a broader art …
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(Re)vivendo amores pretos: mapeamento dos afetos nas danças d’quebradas contemporâneas
This research refers to the study of black affective processes in the dramaturgical and methodological constructions of some dissident black artists from São Paulo and Salvador, in dialogue with the productions of the author of this writing. The understanding that affection, love and identity are …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
… structure to discover more continuity in how artists in the United States responded to the events of their time. Of particular concern is how certain artists used creative strategies originated in the 1930s to address the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s during an era when formal …
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
… American opera and the representation of blackness therein. Considering the opera both in its premiere iteration and as an institution of tokenization that has supplanted the equitable representation of black artists and narratives within this genre, I consider how this work has come to be …
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The Space Between “Seen” and “Unseen:” Queer People and the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance
<p>In November 1926, a group of Black artists, writers, and activists created the first and only edition of <em>Fire!!</em>, edited by novelist Wallace Thurman. <em>Fire!!</em> was created by a younger generation of New Negroes and “devoted to the younger Negro artists” who dissented from the …
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
Towards a Poetics of Bafflement asserts that blackness baffles—confuses and frustrates—the order of knowledge that deems black subjectivities as pathological. This dissertation argues for the importance of the psychic and affective spaces that emerge in the work of contemporary black women and …
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
… the Harlem Renaissance and the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and engaging with literary studies, history, and ethnography, it employs African-based belief systems as a lens through which to interrogate ideas about the interaction between race and …
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Hip Hop, Bluegrass, Banjos, and Solidarity: Race and Class Histories in Appalachia U.S.A
… solidarity movement, I examine the history of Black oppression from slavery to current modes of oppression such as mass incarceration and colorblind constitutionalism. The presence of anti-Black racism and under acknowledgement of whiteness hinders any form of cross-racial solidarity. To combat …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures 1976-2010
… practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and galleries that are part of a broader attempt to increase the diversity of histories and perspectives represented in public art collections and exhibitions. The research focuses on three …
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