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BLK ART - The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art (Hardcover)
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BLK ART - The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art (Hardcover)
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A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art
masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined.
Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world
are shaking. Beyonce and Jay-Z break the internet by blending
modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video
filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European
masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the
resignations of leaders of the old guard. It's clear that modern
day museums can no longer exist without change-and without
recognizing that Black people have been a part of the Western art
world since its beginnings. Quietly held within museum and private
collections around the world are hundreds of faces of Black men and
women, many of their stories unknown. From paintings of majestic
kings to a portrait of a young girl named Isabella in Amsterdam,
these models lived diverse lives while helping shape the art world
along the way. Then, after hundreds of years of Black faces cast as
only the subject of the white gaze, a small group of trailblazing
Black American painters and sculptors reached national and
international fame, setting the stage for the flourishing of Black
art in the 1920s and beyond. Captivating and informative, BLK ART
is an essential work that elevates a globally dismissed legacy to
its proper place in the mainstream art canon. From the hushed
corridors of royal palaces to the bustling streets of 1920s
Paris-this is Black history like never seen before.
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