| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
NYU series in social and cultural anaylsis
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NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Against positive images -- Black personhood in the maw of abstraction -- Historical cadence and the nitty-gritty effect -- Telling it slant -- Coda: The literary advantage. |
| Summary |
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the 'proper' depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism - a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American aesthetics.
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African American aesthetics. |
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Abstraction.
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Abstraction. |
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African American arts -- Themes, motives.
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African American arts. |
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Themes, motives. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harper, Phillip Brian. Abstractionist aesthetics 9781479865437 (DLC) 2015021344 (OCoLC)906010900 |
| ISBN |
9781479808878 electronic book |
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1479808873 electronic book |
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9781479865437 |
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1479865435 |
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9781479818365 |
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1479818364 |
| Standard No. |
40025574699 |
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