Black Self: Notes for a conversation
When asked to convene a colloquium about something that, for me, defines the art world during this on-going pandemic, I thought of the obvious – revisionism in the West, and the stratospheric obsession/fetishization of the black body. Why, I wondered, is black portraiture ‘a thing’? And why, of all...
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Language: | English |
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University of Johannesburg
2022-06-01
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Series: | The Thinker |
Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/1284 |