The popular image of African-American men has gone through several transformations since the rise of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s. This book, which is the catalogue of an exhibition that opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in November 1994, chronicles these changing perceptions of African-American masculinity as interpreted in painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed-media work, as well as in film and video. More than 70 works have been selected, by 29 leading artists of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hammons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Adrian Piper, Andres Serrano, and Lorna Simpson, among others, explore such issues as personal identity, sexuality, and social history. The catalogue includes six essays by leading voices in African-American art criticism and cultural studies: Elizabeth Alexander bell hooks, Isaac Julien and Kobena Mercer, Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, and Greg Tate. The film and video section is the work of five scholars in African-American studies. Herman Gray, Ed Guerrero, Philip Brian Harper, Valerie Smith, and Clyde Taylor each curated a film and video programme, and their essays examine critical and theoretical points of view concerning mainstream and independent film and video as well as commercial television. Essays by Thelma Golden and John G. Hanhardt present overviews of the problems and challenges confronted by representations of black masculinity in the various forms of artisitc expression.

Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art

Arts & Photography

Thelma Golden

History & Criticism

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

Romare Bearden in Black-And-White: Photomontage Projections, 1964

Romare Bearden in Black-And-White: Photomontage Projections, 1964

Albert Murray

Gail Gelburd

Corporate Author-Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris

Individual Artists

Whitney Museum of American Art

Beautifully illustrated. Chrstin Y. Kim and Malik Gaines in conversation with Kehinde Wiley. Essays by Krista A. Thompson, Tavia Nyong'o, and Robert Hobbs. 64p. Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, July 17-October 26, 2008. Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is a Nigerian-American portrait painter, who is known for his highly his vibrant, large-scale, naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. He painted a comm

World Stage : Africa, Lagos - Dakar

Robert Hobbs

Krista A. Thompson

NY: The Studio Museum of Harlem

Converge™ is a new publication that gives voice and vision to Miami Art Museum’s New Work Series from 1996 to 2002. Each of the books in the 3 book series is handsomely illustrated with more than 50 color and black and white reproductions of the artist’s projects. Volume 1 includes: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Genevieve Cadieux, Carlos Capelan, Janet Cardiff, Tom Downs, Leonardo Drew, Vernon Fisher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marcos Lora Read, Ana Maria Mazzei, Doris Salcedo, Lorna Simpson, and Ruben Torres-Llorca. Volume 2 will be published in fall 2001 and Volume 3 in 2002.

Converge, vol. 1

Amy Rosenblum Martín

Fred D'Aguiar

Sue Graze

Tami Katz-Freiman

Charles Merewether

Tananarive Due

Adrian Castro

Carol Damian

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Miami Art Museum

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