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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811179303321

Autore

Newsum H. E. <1951->

Titolo

SoulStirrers : black art and the neo-ancestral impulse / / Ike Okafor-Newsum (Horace Newsum) ; foreword by Demetrius L. Eudell ; introduction by John W. Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-62674-638-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

700.8996073

Soggetti

Neo-Ancestralist Artist Group

African American art - 20th century - Themes, motives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: The Counterpoetics of the Neo-Ancestral Impulse; Acts of Memory: An Introductory Comment; Chapter 1: How I Became a Neo-Ancestralist: African American Art and Artists in Cincinnati; Chapter 2: The Neo-Ancestral Impulse in Cincinnati; Chapter 3: The Neo-Ancestralist Aesthetic; Chapter 4: Neo-Ancestralist Art as Counterhegemonic Expression; Chapter 5: Bloods: The Neo-Ancestral Impulse in African American Art; Conclusion; Appendix: Neo-Ancestralist Online Manifesto; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A study of the creative infusion of ""African-ness"" and social justice into African American art traditions