A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious,?In the Black Fantastic?assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora. Embracing the mythic and the speculative, it recycles and reconfigures elements of fable, folklore, science fiction, spiritual traditions, ceremonial pageantry, and the legacies of Afrofuturism. In works that span photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, graphic arts, music and architecture,?In the Black Fantastic?shows how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender and identity.
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Ekow Eshun
MIT Press
Hardcover/ 304 pages
ISBN?9780262047258
In the Black Fantastic