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Phenomenal difference : a philosophy of black British art / Leon Wainwright.

By: Series: Value, art, politics ; 13.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiii, 225 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781781383124
  • 178138312X
  • 9781781384176
  • 1781384177
Subject(s):
Contents:
Representation -- Affective relations -- Placing the past -- The body and perception -- Equivalence -- Reversibility -- Intertwining -- Art and mediation.
Summary: Phenomenal Difference' grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception. Much before scholars in the arts and humanities took their recent 'ontological turn' toward the new materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural criticism's overreliance on the concepts of textuality, representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and widely-reaching philosophy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.

Representation -- Affective relations -- Placing the past -- The body and perception -- Equivalence -- Reversibility -- Intertwining -- Art and mediation.

Phenomenal Difference' grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception. Much before scholars in the arts and humanities took their recent 'ontological turn' toward the new materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural criticism's overreliance on the concepts of textuality, representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and widely-reaching philosophy.