In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that
blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime,
but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling
the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror
that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists that blackness
cannot make a home within the aesthetic, yet is held as its
threshold and aporia. The book problematizes the phenomenological
and ontological conceits that underwrite the visual, sensual, and
abstract logics of modernity. Moving across multiple histories and
geographies, artistic mediums and forms, from nineteenth-century
painting and early cinema, to the contemporary text-based works,
video installations, and digital art of Glenn Ligon, Mickalene
Thomas, and Sondra Perry, Bradley inaugurates a new method for
interpretation—an ante-formalism which demonstrates how black art
engages in the recursive deconstruction of the aesthetic forms that
remain foundational to modernity. Foregrounding the negativity of
black art, Bradley shows how each of these artists disclose the
racialized contours of the body, form, and medium, even
interrogating the form that is the world itself. Drawing from black
critical theory, Continental philosophy, film and media studies,
art history, and black feminist thought, Bradley explores artistic
practices that inhabit the negative underside of form. Ultimately,
Anteaesthetics asks us to think philosophically with black art, and
with the philosophical invention black art necessarily undertakes.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Rizvana Bradley
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
406 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3302-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5036-3302-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781503633025 |
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