The Time is Always Now. Artists Reframe the Black Figure

Par : Ekow Eshun
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  • Nombre de pages192
  • FormatGrand Format
  • PrésentationRelié
  • Poids1.43 kg
  • Dimensions25,0 cm × 30,5 cm × 2,3 cm
  • ISBN978-1-85514-558-0
  • EAN9781855145580
  • Date de parution15/02/2024
  • ÉditeurNational Portrait Gallery
  • PréfacierNicholas Cullinan

Résumé

The Time is Always Now : Artists Reframe the Black Figure presents 22 contemporary African diasporic artists working primarily in the UK and US whose practice foregrounds the Black figure. Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, this book explores the accomplished work of individual artists and celebrates a collective assertion of Black presence.
Through their work in figuration, these artists are inviting a shift in the dominant art history perspective, from "looking at" the Black figure - via an external, objectifying gaze - to "seeing through" the eyes of Black artists and the figures they depict.
Ekow Eshun is a writer and curator. He is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing one of the foremost public art programmes in the UK, and author of books including In the Black Fantastic (2022) and Black Gold of the Sun (2006), shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Esi Edugyan is a Canadian author. She is winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018), also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Her essay collection Out of the Sun : Essays at the Crossroads of Race published in 2022. Bernardine Evaristo FRSL, OBE is an author and academic. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature. Evaristo won the Booker Prize with her novel Girl, Woman, Other (2019). Professor Dorothy Price FBA is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art.
She is curator of exhibitions including Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now (2024), Claudette Johnson : Presence (2023) and Making Modernism (2022).