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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.
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