Donald Rodney - Richard Hylton

Donald Rodney

Art, Race and the Body Politic

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-22846-7 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
A detailed account of the Black British artist Donald Rodney (1961-1998), one of the most important multi-media artists of his generation whose career spanned the 1980s and the 1990s.
Donald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time. A protagonist from the first generation of Black British-born art students in the early 1980s, Rodney and his peers brought a new dynamic to British art – a hitherto unseen interplay between aesthetics, politics, humour and Black consciousness. Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politic is the first book-length study of a protean practice which spanned the early 1980s to the late 1990s and included a prodigious output of work across painting, photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, installation, and new technologies.

Across eight meticulously researched chapters, the book examines the social and cultural events which inspired Rodney's artwork and the responses it elicited. From his formative years in the West Midlands as a leading exponent of ‘Black Art’, to a subsequent decade of unbridled visual innovation and social critique, the book ventures new detailed analyses of key works, exhibitions, artistic influences and collaborations.

Deploying recurring metaphors of the ‘diseased’, traumatised and ‘raced’ body, Rodney addressed racial and social inequality, legacies of slavery, police brutality, sport, and Black male identity in novel and powerful ways. Attending to the artist’s material dexterity and visual acuity, the book considers how and why Rodney’s innovative practice uniquely challenged delineations between the political and non-political, personal and public, representation and visibility. Over a generation has passed since Rodney’s premature death from the effects of the hereditary blood disorder sickle cell anaemia at aged thirty-six. Despite this, Rodney's work continues to speak to our contemporary moment in a multiplicity of ways. As such, the book provides a much-needed critical perspective and insight to the work and legacy of a nonpareil British artist.

Richard Hylton is a curator, artist and art historian, and Lecturer in Contemporary Art at SOAS, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Nature of the Beast: Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector - A Study of Policies, Initiatives and Attitudes 1976-2006 (2007), and editor of Donald Rodney: Doublethink (2003)

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
Preface

Introduction
1. Posthumous Career
2. Blood Ah Goh Run, Blood Ah Goh Run
3. Burnin’ All Illusions: Slavery and its Legacies
4. Material Witness
5. The Making of Crisis
6. Skin in the Game
7. The Art of Collaboration
8. The Secret Life of Fragile Houses

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.2.2025
Zusatzinfo 48 colour & 27 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 1-350-22846-X / 135022846X
ISBN-13 978-1-350-22846-7 / 9781350228467
Zustand Neuware
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