Troubling Vision Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

Name: Troubling Vision Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
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ISBN: 9780226253039

ISBN-10: 0226253031

ISBN-13: 9780226253039

Edition: 2010

Authors: Nicole R. Fleetwood

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In 2001, Renee Cox'sYo Mama's Last Supperwas 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 Visionbridges the gap between these divergent approaches, arguing that…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.254



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



ï¿½One Shotï¿½: Charles ï¿½Teenieï¿½ Harris and the Photographic Practice of Non-Iconicity



Her Own Spook: Colorism, Vision, and the Dark Female Body



Excess Flesh: Black Women Performing Hypervisibility



ï¿½I am Kingï¿½: Hip-Hop Culture, Fashion Advertising, and the Black Male Body



Visible Seams: The Media Art of Fatimah Tuggar


Coda: The Icon Is Dead: Mourning Michael Jackson


Notes


Bibliography


Index