In A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See Tina M. Campt examines Black contemporary artists and the dismantling of the white gaze. From Bookshop.org:
Campt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering–and joy–of Black life in the present. The artists whose work Campt explores challenge the fundamental disparity that defines the dominant viewing practice: the notion that Blackness is the elsewhere (or nowhere) of whiteness. These artists create images that flow, that resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life in radical ways. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze.
Read more from Bookshop.org. If you’re eagerly waiting for your copy of A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, Hyperallergic published an excerpt here.
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