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Troubling Vision (Hardcover, New)
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Troubling Vision (Hardcover, New)
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In 2001 Renee Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper" was exhibited at the
Brooklyn Museum. Cox's photographic recreation of Leonardo da
Vinci's painting features an almost all black cast and the artist,
nude, standing in for Jesus. The intense controversy that erupted
testifies to the enduring power of images of black bodies to
unsettle and disturb viewers. Over the course of the twentieth
century, as black visibility rose across a variety of media,
scholars in art history and media studies began to analyze how
audiences view black subjects, while performance and theater
studies scholars examined black self-presentation. "Troubling
Vision" bridges the gap between these divergent approaches, arguing
that grasping the cultural meaning of blackness relies on
understanding both performance and vision. Taking into account this
fixation on black visibility, Nicole R. Fleetwood explores how
blackness is always a troubling presence in the field of vision and
the black body is persistently seen as a problem. Fleetwood
examines a wide range of materials from visual and media art,
documentary photography, theater and performance, fashion
advertising, and celebrity culture. Based on her trenchant analysis
of this work, Fleetwood investigates the various ways black
cultural producers disrupt dominant notions of black identity and
the black body.
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