How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
- ISBN-10
- 0262050838
- ISBN-13
- 9780262050838
- Category
- African American art
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- Author
- Darby English
Description
Going beyond the "blackness" of black art to examine the integrative andinterdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, and WilliamPope.L—five contemporary black artists in whose work race plays anything but a definingrole.
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