A black gaze: artists changing how we see

Abstract

"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists inc. Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"--

Contents

Prelude to a Black gaze -- The intimacy of strangers -- Black (Counter)Gravity -- Ode to the Visual Frequency of Black Life -- The Slow Lives of Still-Moving-Images -- Sounding A Black Feminist Chorus -- Adjacency and the Poethics of Care -- The Haptic Frequencies of Radical Black Joy.