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Beschreibung

'This book is urgent, essential, accessible and it needs to be on every art history reading list' BERNARDINE EVARISTO
'Thorough, accessible, essential' KATY HESSEL
'Bold, eloquent, personal and clear-eyed, Akinkugbe is a major new voice in writing about art' DAN HICKS
'A gift of knowledge and an ode to those whose creative expressions give us much to be inspired by today' SOFIA AKEL

Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored.

In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of [...] Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this void.

Exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art, as well as Blackness in museums, in feminist art movements and in the curriculum, Alayo unveils an overlooked but integral part of our collective art history.

Refreshing and accessible, this promises to start a much-needed conversation in culture and education.

'This book is urgent, essential, accessible and it needs to be on every art history reading list' BERNARDINE EVARISTO
'Thorough, accessible, essential' KATY HESSEL
'Bold, eloquent, personal and clear-eyed, Akinkugbe is a major new voice in writing about art' DAN HICKS
'A gift of knowledge and an ode to those whose creative expressions give us much to be inspired by today' SOFIA AKEL

Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored.

In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of [...] Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this void.

Exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art, as well as Blackness in museums, in feminist art movements and in the curriculum, Alayo unveils an overlooked but integral part of our collective art history.

Refreshing and accessible, this promises to start a much-needed conversation in culture and education.

Über den Autor

Alayo Akinkugbe graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in History of Art in 2021 and graduated with an MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023. She runs the Instagram platform [...] which highlights Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day; and hosts the podcast A Shared Gaze. Alayo is a contributing editor and writes the column 'Black Gazes' for AnOther Magazine. She was awarded a curatorial research grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for the exhibition Entangled Pasts: Art Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Alayo was on the advisory panel and contributed to the book African Artists: From 1882 to Now, published by Phaidon in 2021, and has written for publications including Dazed, Tate Etc. and The World of Interiors. Reframing Blackness is her first book.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781529186406
ISBN-10: 1529186404
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Akinkugbe, Alayo
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Merky Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 223 x 146 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Alayo Akinkugbe
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2025
Gewicht: 0,489 kg
Artikel-ID: 133611987

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