Krista A Thompson

Shine

The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Krista Thompson is Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque, also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357940
• ISBN-10: 0822357941
• Artikelnr.: 41024159

Autorenporträt

Krista Thompson is Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 1
1. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and
Afro-Modernity 47
2. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility
in Jamaica 112
3. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art
of Being Seen in the Bahamas 169
4. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of
Hip-Hop 215
Notes 271
Bibliography 317
Index 335