0500024626 
Hardback In the black fantastic / Ekow Eshun.
Publication year: 2022
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780500024621 (hbk.) :
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Hayward Gallery, 29th June-18th September 2022.
'In the Black Fantastic' assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. It brings to life the forces that shape Afrofuturism - the cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday of Black experience - and beyond, looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity - based as they are on the historical subjugation of people of colour - the book explores how Black artists are drawing inspiration from African-originated myth, knowledge systems and spiritual practices to confound the Western dichotomy between the real and unreal, the natural and the supernatural.
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Description:
303 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
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