Description
| Product ID: | 9780367136925 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies |
| Title: | Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora |
| Subtitle: | Necropolitics and the Black Body |
| Authors: | Author: Myron Beasley |
| Page Count: | 108 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, History of art, Performance art, Theatre studies, Regional / International studies, African history, History of the Americas, Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Popular culture, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional geography, History of art / art & design styles, Performance art, Theatre studies, Regional studies, African history, History of the Americas, Colonialism & imperialism, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Popular culture, Black & Asian studies, Sociology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional geography |
| Description: | This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and decide which lives matter) through a lens of performance and art. Beasley highlights how the performances of rupture, which are of artistic, and historical significance, reveal both strategies of survival and promises of possibility. Artists and curators examined include Jelili Atiku, Giscard Bouchotte, Nona Faustine, Vanessa German, Simone Leigh, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Ebony G. Patterson, and Dianne Smith. The volume is an ideal research and reference book for students and scholars of Contemporary Art, African Studies, and Performance Theory. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-29 |
