Bourland W. Ian Bourland

Bloodflowers (eBook, PDF)

Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s

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Produktbeschreibung

In Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Born in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, DC, New York, and London, where he produced the bulk of his provocative and often surrealist and homoerotic photographs of black men. Bourland situates Fani-Kayode's work in a time of global transition and traces how it exemplified and responded to profound social, cultural, and political change. In addition to his formal analyses of Fani-Kayode's portraiture, Bourland outlines the important influence that surrealism, neo-Romanticism, Yoruban religion, the AIDS crisis, experimental film, loft culture, and house and punk music had on Fani-Kayode's work. In so doing, Bourland offers new perspectives on a pivotal artist whose brief career continues to resonate with deep aesthetic and social meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002369
• Artikelnr.: 56917163

Autorenporträt

W. Ian Bourland

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Nothing to Lose  1
Exposure 1. Brixton  23
Exposure 2. Rage and Desire  58
Exposure 3. Magnolia Air  91
Exposure 4. The Queen Is Dead  146
Exposure 5. Mirror Worlds  171
Exposure 6. Night Moves  209
Epilogue. Homecoming  250
Notes  257
Bibliography  291
Index  305