{"product_id":"reframing-blackness-9781529186420","title":"Reframing Blackness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original and empowering corrective to the current understanding of Blackness in Western art and museums, from curator and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Thorough, accessible, essential’ \u003c\/b\u003eKATY HESSEL, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Art Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Needs to be on every art history reading list'\u003c\/b\u003e BERNARDINE EVARISTO, Women’s Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReframing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this void.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 80 different artworks - from Manet, Degas, and, Rossetti to contemporary work by Lubaina Himid and Sonia Boyce, to name a few - Alayo explores the presentation of Black figures in Western art, unveiling an overlooked but integral part of our collective art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlayo also looks at Blackness in museums, in feminist art movements and in the curriculum, rejecting the idea that diversity can be fixed by a few new acquisitions or token inclusions but instead showing us how Blackness has been framed - and how it can be reframed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRefreshing and accessible, this promises to start a much-needed conversation in culture and education.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eReframing Blackness:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Bold, eloquent, personal and clear-eyed, \u003c\/b\u003eAkinkugbe is a major new voice in writing about art, museums, and culture' DAN HICKS, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBritish Museums\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gift of knowledge \u003c\/b\u003eand an ode to those whose creative expressions give us much to be inspired by today' SOFIA AKEL, award-winning historian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A fearless, timely evisceration of so much of the Art History that we have taken for granted…\u003cb\u003eMandatory reading.’\u003c\/b\u003e DR GUS CASELY-HAYFORD, director of V\u0026amp;A East\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I wish I had a resource like this when I was growing up\u003c\/b\u003e, but it's equally as impactful in my adulthood.’ RONAN MCKENZIE, photographer, designer and curator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alayo Akinkugbe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56452706468182,"sku":"9781529186420","price":73.0,"currency_code":"PLN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781529186420.jpg?v=1793655886","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.pl\/products\/reframing-blackness-9781529186420","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}