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An important examination of how artists have grappled with
anti-Black violence and its representations from the late
nineteenth century to the present From the horrors of slavery and
lynching to the violent suppression of civil rights struggles and
recent acts of police brutality, targeted violence of Black lives
has been an ever-present fact in American history. Images of
African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring
part of the nation's cultural landscape, and the development of
creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern
for American artists. Investigating the conceptual and aesthetic
strategies artists have used to engage with the issue of anti-Black
violence, A Site of Struggle highlights diverse works of art and
ephemera from the post-Reconstruction period of the late nineteenth
century to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Foregrounding the perspectives of African American cultural
producers, this book examines three major questions: How are
graphic portrayals of violence enlisted to protest horrors like
lynchings? How have artists employed conceptual strategies and
varying degrees of abstraction to avoid literal representations of
violence? And how do artists explore violence through subtler
engagements with the Black body? Ultimately, A Site of Struggle
highlights the ubiquity and impact of anti-Black violence by
focusing on its depictions; by examining how art has been used to
protest, process, mourn, and memorialize this violence; and by
providing the historical context for contemporary debates about its
representation. The book's essays offer new perspectives from
established and emerging scholars working in the fields of African
American studies, art history, communications, and history.
Contributors include Sampada Aranke, Courtney Baker, Huey Copeland,
Janet Dees, Leslie Harris, and LaCharles Ward. Published in
association with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University Exhibition Schedule The Mary and Leigh
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University January 26-July 10,
2022 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August
13-November 6, 2022
This new project by German-born photographer Renate Aller is an
extension of the ongoing series and book "Oceanscapes" (2010).
Aller has continued to make images of the ocean from a single
vantage point--for which she is internationally known--but for the
last several years, she has also photographed sand dunes in New
Mexico and Colorado. She has now paired the resulting images in a
fascinating new series that continues her investigation into the
relationship between romanticism, memory and landscape in the
context of our current sociopolitical awareness. There is both a
visual and visceral relationship between the two bodies of work.
The desert images also capture visitors to the dunes, who engage in
beach activities far away from any large body of water. And while
these parallel realities are from completely different locations,
the simultaneous, multiple activities on the sloping sand hills
appears as if layers of different people and activities were
choreographed next to rolling waves of the sea. Aller's first
combination of these images was in book form, for a mammoth
handmade book that was 36 inches wide. The overwhelming success of
that publication has inspired this new trade edition, which
features the largest binding that can be mechanically bound, and
includes an expanded selection of the work.
Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in New York. "Ocean
and Desert" is her third monograph published with Radius Books,
following "Dicotyledon" and the long-term project "Oceanscapes-One
View-Ten Years." Pieces from that series and other site-specific
artworks are in the collections of corporate institutions, private
collectors and museums, including the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe;
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale University Art
Gallery, Conneticut; the George Eastman House, Rochester; New
Britain Museum of American Art; Hamburger Kunsthalle; and the
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison.
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