Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas

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Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925–2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-discuss with and revise to reflect on individual and collective Black revel in. Equally engaged with social and political histories, and the history of art, Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas have created works that every now and then poignantly and mockingly critique dominant narratives and posit alternatives. By making an allowance for these artists together, this thought-provoking book expands our figuring out of latest history painting, a genre first defined all over the 17th century and known for didactic paintings that regularly depicted Biblical or mythological subjects, and expressed the tastes and narratives of a ruling class. Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas marry appreciation of these traditional varieties of representation to a deep figuring out of latest American culture to create insightful works that disrupt historic narratives and read canonic art history against the grain.

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