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Editor
Vanessa D. Thaxton–Ward, Ph.D.
Guest Editor
Tracy Spencer–Stonestreet
Executive Publisher
William R. Harvey, Ed.D.
Representation of the human body has served as portrait, metaphor, and muse for artists throughout time and place. The figure memorializes individuals and represents cultural identities, embodying our desires, dreams, pain, and pleasure. While never truly out of style, the figure has regained prominence within contemporary African American art. In 2002, the Studio Museum in Harlem put on Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in African American Art, an exhibition that focused on contemporary painting. Nearly fifteen years later, the figure has maintained (if not increased) its central position within contemporary art. In 2014, Kara Walker enamored the art world with A Subtlety, or The Marvelous Sugarbaby, a 35–foot tall figure of a woman made of foam and sugar, installed in an old Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn. While Walker’s gargantuan sculpture signals a new height (both literally and figuratively) of contemporary figurative work, it builds on nearly five decades of beautiful provocative and skillful sculpture by African American artists. Their work is the focus of this issue of the IRAAA, which brings together six feature articles highlighting figurative sculptors of the African Diaspora.
— Excerpt from “The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture” Tracy Spencer–Stonestreet
Feature Articles and Contributors:
“En(lighten)ment Dance Off: Yinka Shonibare’s Art as Action in Un–Eventful Times”, Tara Atluri, Ph.D.
“From the Corner to the Capitol: (re)Visioning the Legacy of Slavery in the Memorial Landscape”, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton, Ph.D.
“Soundsuit Redux: Nick Cave as Emerging Artist and Forward–Thinking Racial Theorist”, Kim Bobier, Ph.D.
“Sculpting African Nouveau: Primitivism, Ethnography and Afro–Kitsch in the Works of Woodrow Nash”, James Smalls
“The Test of Time: Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. Series and the Materiality and Temporality of the Body”, John White
“Kehinde Wiley: 3–D”, Jody B. Cutler, Ph.D.
Scene
“History Is With Us”, Shana Dumont Garr
“Theatrical Reckoning”, Shana Dumont Garr
Bibliographic Details
Title: The International Review of African American Art
Publisher: The Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Pictorial Softcover
Book Condition: Excellent
Book Type: Quarterly Magazine
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