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The time is always now : artists reframe the Black figure / Ekow Eshun.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : National Portrait Gallery, 2024.Description: 192 pages : illustrations; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9781855145580
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Contents:
Director's foreword / Nichoals Cullinan
Introduction: The time is always now / Ekow Eshun
DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS The fabric of things / Esi Edugyan
Michael Armitage, Noah Davis, Claudette Johnson, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Jennifer Packer, Thomas J Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson
Voices: Reflections on Black bodies and Black lives by authors, poets and scholars Small worlds (2023) / Caleb Azumah Nelson
Praise song for the day (2009) / Elizabeth Alexander
Reply (1991) / Lucille Clifton
Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects (2017) / Stuart Hall
Here too spring comes to us with open arms (2020) / Caleb Femi
Don't touch my hair (2019) / Emma Dabiri
Songbook (2019) / Jay Bernard
PAST AND PRESENCE New angels of history / Dorothy Price
Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Lubaina Himid, Titus Kaphar, Barbara Walker
Voices: Reflections on Black bodies and Black lives by authors, poets and scholars Things I have withheld (2021) / Kei Miller
Come on kid, let's go get the thing (2015) / Demetrius L. Eudell
Girl (2022) / Victoria Adukwei Bulley
A minor figure (2019) / Saidiya Hartman
The tradition (2019) / Jericho Brown
Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness (1989) / bell hooks
Ode to my blackness (2011) / Evie Shockley
OUR ALIVENESS Blackness as a free state / Bernadine Evaristo
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Jordan Casteel, Denzil Forrester, Chris Ofili, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Henry Taylor
Summary: A major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art. The exhibition, curated by writer Ekow Eshun, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, we examine its absence – and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced. The exhibition will feature the work of leading artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Denzil Forrester, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Jennifer Packer, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Thomas J Price, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor and Barbara Walker.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Gold 704.942 ESH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12822

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 22 February - 19 May 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pp.186-187).

Director's foreword / Nichoals Cullinan

Introduction: The time is always now / Ekow Eshun

DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS The fabric of things / Esi Edugyan

Michael Armitage, Noah Davis, Claudette Johnson, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Jennifer Packer, Thomas J Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson

Voices: Reflections on Black bodies and Black lives by authors, poets and scholars Small worlds (2023) / Caleb Azumah Nelson

Praise song for the day (2009) / Elizabeth Alexander

Reply (1991) / Lucille Clifton

Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects (2017) / Stuart Hall

Here too spring comes to us with open arms (2020) / Caleb Femi

Don't touch my hair (2019) / Emma Dabiri

Songbook (2019) / Jay Bernard

PAST AND PRESENCE New angels of history / Dorothy Price

Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Lubaina Himid, Titus Kaphar, Barbara Walker

Voices: Reflections on Black bodies and Black lives by authors, poets and scholars Things I have withheld (2021) / Kei Miller

Come on kid, let's go get the thing (2015) / Demetrius L. Eudell

Girl (2022) / Victoria Adukwei Bulley

A minor figure (2019) / Saidiya Hartman

The tradition (2019) / Jericho Brown

Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness (1989) / bell hooks

Ode to my blackness (2011) / Evie Shockley

OUR ALIVENESS Blackness as a free state / Bernadine Evaristo

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Jordan Casteel, Denzil Forrester, Chris Ofili, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Henry Taylor

A major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art. The exhibition, curated by writer Ekow Eshun, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. As well as surveying the presence of the Black figure in Western art history, we examine its absence – and the story of representation told through these works, as well as the social, psychological and cultural contexts in which they were produced. The exhibition will feature the work of leading artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Denzil Forrester, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Jennifer Packer, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Thomas J Price, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor and Barbara Walker.