EAN: 9780262045872

A BLACK GAZE - TINA M CAMPT GEBUNDEN

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and
demanding that we see--and see Blackness in particular--anew. In A Black Gaze  Tina Campt
examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with
the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work--from
Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty
and grit of the Black experience  from Kahlil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to
the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpokwasili  Simone Leigh  and Luke
Willis Thompson--requires viewers to do more than simply look  it solicits visceral responses
to the visualization of Black precarity. Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers
from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with  through  and
alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. The artists whose work Campt
explores challenge the fundamental disparity that defines the dominant viewing practice: the
notion that Blackness is the elsewhere (or nowhere) of whiteness. These artists create images
that flow  that resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life
in radical ways. Writing with rigor and passion  Campt describes the creativity  ingenuity 
cunning  and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze.

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