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When we see us : a century of black figuration in painting / edited by Koyo Kouoh ; with contributions by Ken Bugul [and 4 others].

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London : Thames and Hudson, 2022.

Black people in art -- Exhibitions.

Artists, Black -- Exhibitions.

Figure painting -- Exhibitions.

9780500025888 (hardcover) :

0500025886 (hardcover) :

336 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Introduction / Koy Kouoh -- The everyday. Seeing ourselves / Tandazani Dhlakama ; Plates -- Joy and revelry. But you amaze me / Maaza Mengiste ; Plates -- Respose. Dispossession and possession / Ken Bugul ; Plates -- Sensuality. Organic / Bill Kouélany ; Plates -- Spirituality. Plastic / Bill Kouélany ; Plates -- Triumph and emancipation. Poems / Robin Coste Lewis ; Plates -- Artist's biographies.

"This major new study of Black figurative art and self-representation from Africa and the African diaspora features more than 200 paintings by 161 artists. These carefully selected works explore the many ways in which artists have imagined, positioned, remembered and asserted African and diasporic experiences from the early 20th century to now. In particular, they demonstrate how painters have contributed to the ongoing discussions around pan-Africanism, civil rights, African liberation and independence, the Anti-Apartheid and Black Consciousness movements, Black Lives Matter and, more recently, Afropolitanism. A series of thematic sections--on subjects such as sensuality, spirituality and emancipation--is interspered with specially commissioned stories and poems by leading writers Ken Bugul, Maaza Mengiste, Bill Kouélany and Robin Coste Lewis. These percipient reflections on the Black experience work with the paintings to deepen the debate about Black subjectivity."-- Publisher.

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