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portada Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Weight
0.44 kg.
ISBN13
9781478030577
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Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art

Nikki A. Greene (Author) · Duke University Press · Paperback

Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art - Greene, Nikki A.

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Synopsis "Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art"

In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene traces the intersection of the visual's sonic possibilities with the Black body's physical, representational, and metaphorical use in art. She employs her concept of "visual aesthetic musicality" to interpret Black visual art by examining the musical genres of jazz and rap along with the often-overlooked innovations of funk and rumba within art historiography. From Bailey's use of multilayered surfaces of glitter, mud, and recycled materials to meditate on Sun Ra's Afrofuturism to Stout's life-sized cast of her own body that recalls funk musician Betty Davis to Campos-Pons's performative and sculptural references to sugar that resonates with the legacy of Celia Cruz, Greene outlines how these artists use mediums such as molded glass sculptures, viscous wet plaster, and dazzling manikin heads to enhance the manifestations of Black identity. By foregrounding the sonic elements of their work, Greene demonstrates that these artists use sound to make themselves legible, recognizable, and audible.

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