{"product_id":"a-black-gaze-artists-changing-how-we-see-tina-m-campt","title":"A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See;  Tina M. Campt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExamining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see--and see Blackness in particular--anew.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn A Black Gaze , Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work--from Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Kahlil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson--requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCampt shows that this new way of seeing shifts viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with , through , and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. The artists whose work Campt explores challenge the fundamental disparity that defines the dominant viewing the notion that Blackness is the elsewhere (or nowhere) of whiteness. These artists create images that flow, that resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life in radical ways. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugust 24, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eTina Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media. Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art. One of the founding researchers in Black European Studies, her early work theorized gender, racial, and diasporic formation in black communities in Europe, focusing on the role of vernacular photography in processes of historical interpretation. Her books include:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOther Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(University Michigan Press, 2004),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eImage Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Duke University Press, 2012), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eListening to Images\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Duke University Press, 2017).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49495137321282,"sku":"","price":11.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/blackgaze.jpg?v=1722453705","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/a-black-gaze-artists-changing-how-we-see-tina-m-campt","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}