When we see us : a century of Black figuration in painting / edited by Koyo Kouoh.
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2023Description: 336 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780500025888
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | CGLAS Library | Red | 759.06 KOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 12614 |
Introduction / Koyo Kouoh
The everyday : Seeing ourselves / Tandazani Dhlakama
Joy and revelry : But you amaze me / Maaza Mengiste
Repose : Dispossession and possession / Ken Bugul
Sensuality : Organic / Bill Kouélany
Spirituality : Plastic / Bill Kouélany
Triumph and emancipation : Poems / Robin Coste Lewis
Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, this book presents a comprehensive exploration of Black self representation through portraiture and figuration, celebrating Black subjectivity and Black consciousness from Pan-African and Pan-Diasporic perspectives. With a primary focus on representational painting, 'When We See Us' celebrates how artists from Africa and the African diaspora have imagined, positioned, memorialized and asserted African and African diasporic experiences during a 100-year period spanning from the early 20th century to the present.