Grime, Glitter, and Glass - Nikki A. Greene

Grime, Glitter, and Glass

The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3057-7 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Focusing on the art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nikki A. Greene examines how Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture.
In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene traces the intersection of the visual’s sonic possibilities with the Black body’s physical, representational, and metaphorical use in art. She employs her concept of “visual aesthetic musicality” to interpret Black visual art by examining the musical genres of jazz and rap, along with the often-overlooked innovations of funk and rumba, within art historiography. From Bailey’s use of multilayered surfaces of glitter, mud, and recycled materials to meditate on Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism to Stout’s life-size cast of her own body that recalls funk musician Betty Davis to Campos-Pons’s performative and sculptural references to sugar that resonate with the legacy of Celia Cruz, Greene outlines how these artists use mediums such as molded glass sculptures, viscous wet plaster, and dazzling mannequin heads to enhance the manifestations of Black identity. By foregrounding the sonic elements of their work, Greene demonstrates that these artists use sound to make themselves legible, recognizable, and audible.

Nikki A. Greene is Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College.

List of Illustrations  vii
Acknowledgments  xiii
Prelude. The Cadences of Black Art  1
Verse One. Renée Stout. Fetishes
Fetish #2  20
I Can Heal  54
Point of View  68
Verse Two. Radcliffe Bailey. Soundscapes
Pullman  84
Transbluesency  104
Windward Coast  120
Verse Three. María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Identities
Habla Iamadre  137
Alchemy of the Soul  164
Identified  186
Coda. Drawn to this Blackness  197
Notes  211
Bibliography  233
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
Zusatzinfo 93 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-3057-7 / 1478030577
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-3057-7 / 9781478030577
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