Struggles for Black political enfranchisement have always informed how Black artists have understood the stakes of visual representation.
Where Black people have been paradoxically overlooked and hyper-surveilled by the state, Black visual artists have used the materials at their disposal to insist on black bodies and black life as fundamentally worthy of representation.
For this Art at Noon, art historian Imani Roach will discuss this ongoing dynamic and its implications for the spectrum of black representation in art from realism to abstraction, and from the US context to the diaspora.
Recorded on June 24, 2020
https://www.pafa.org/events/notes-politics-representation-black-art-history-062420
