(Routledge Research in Art and Race) 1st Edition
by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Author)
This
book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing
specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the
discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States.
This
volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes
materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton
discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of
Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert
Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet
Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through
in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a
black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black
women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in
contemporary visual culture of the United States.
The
book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual
studies, American literature, gender studies, popular culture, and
African American studies.
