Black Art and Aesthetics

<i>Black Art and Aesthetics</i> comprises essays poems and images by artists and writers: <b>GerShun Avilez Angela Y. Davis Thomas F. Defrantz Theaster Gates Aracelis Girmay Jeremy Matthew Glick Deborah Goffe James B. Haile III Vijay Iyer Isaac Julien Benjamin Krusling Daphne Lamothe George E. Lewis Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Meleko Mokgosi Wangechi Mutu Fumi Okiji Nell Painter Mickaella Perina Kevin Quashie Claudia Rankine Claudia Schmuckli Evie Shockley Paul C. Taylor Kara Walker and Simone White</b><br/> <br/> The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by engaging intersectionally with class queer sexuality female embodiment dance vocabularies coloniality Afrodiasporic music Black post-soul art Afropessimism and more. Black aesthetics thus restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms of sensation and imagination in art culture design everyday life and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience identity and resistance.<br/> <br/> Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts culture and theory <i>Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities Interiorities Reckonings</i>provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists activists theorists and others who critique racial inequities create new forms of interiority and relationality uncover affective histories and develop strategies for social justice.