Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings

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Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings comprises an array of essays, poems, and interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers including Angela Y. Davis, George E. Lewis, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Iyer, Mabel O. Wilson, Paul C. Taylor, Wangechi Mutu, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, Meleko Mokgosi, Sarah E. Lewis, Kevin Quashie, and Nell Painter. 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 imaginationin art, culture, design, everyday life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience, identity, and resistance. Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists, activists, theorists, and others critiquing racial inequities, creating new forms of interiority and relationality, uncovering affective histories, and developing strategies for social justice.

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Michael Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He is President of the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2014, 2nd edition). Monique Roelofs is Professor of Philosophy of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic (2014) and Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and the World (2020).