Confronting the Racist Past/Approaching Racist Visual Culture Now
As the Black Power era shifted into a new phase dominated by Post-Modernist and Post-Colonial critiques, an exciting generation of African American artists gained critical attention through sophisticated engagement with these new theoretical models, and brilliant contributions in more traditional styles and media.
For our last unit, I have grouped contemporary African American artists using seven themes. These categories are overlapping and in some cases contradictory, and the artists’ works all defy easy categorization. Nevertheless, I believe these thematic groupings still may be helpful as you consider topics central to African American artists today. There is no VoiceThread for this unit, as we will all make sense of our present moment together in the Discussion Forums.
Watch, Read and Research: Watch the video and/or read the short article that goes with three of the themes I have listed below, and for each of those three themes, pick one of the artists listed to more intensively research. For contemporary artists, their own homepages and social media sites, websites for galleries that represent them, interviews, and reviews of shows all are good sources of information. You may wish to look on YouTube for videos by CREDIBLE institutions such as museums and universities. Choose at least one work of art to discuss for each journal entry.
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