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100 1 a| English, Darby,d| 1974-e| author.=| ^A721430;

245 10 a| To describe a life :b| notes from the intersection of art and race terror /c| Darby English.;

264 1 a| New Haven ;a| London :b| Yale University Press in association with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University,c| [2019];

300 a| xiii, 134 pages :b| illustrations (chiefly color) ;c| 26 cm.;

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490 1 a| Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and of love-as resources amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in or for our tumultuous present. Addressing themes of racial violence and representation, these idiosyncratic works neither offer solutions nor accommodate simplistic narratives about difference. In Zoe Leonard's Tipping Point, English sees an embodiment of love in the face of brutality; in Kerry James Marshall's untitled 2015 portrait of a black male police officer, a greatly fraught subject treated without apparent judgment; in Pope. L's Skin Set Drawings, a life project undertaken to challenge codified uses of difference, color, and language; and, in a replica of the Lorraine Motel-the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968-a monument to the unfinished business of the integrated nonviolent movement for Civil Rights. These works unsettle and refuse to satisfy any particular political demand. Powerful, challenging, and timely, To Describe a Life is an invitation to rethink what life in ongoing crisis is and can be-and, indeed, to discover how art can help.;

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To describe a life : notes from the intersection of art and race terror / Darby English.

Author/creator	English, Darby, 1974- author.
Format	Book
Publication	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press in association with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, [2019]
Description	xiii, 134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Subjects	African Americans in art. Police in art. Racism in art. Violence in art. African American art--21st century. Police brutality--United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States. African Americans--Violence against. Art and society. Art and race. Black people in art

Series	Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art Richard D. Cohen lectures on African & African American art. ^A1379585
Abstract	By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art-and of love-as resources amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in or for our tumultuous present. Addressing themes of racial violence and representation, these idiosyncratic works neither offer solutions nor accommodate simplistic narratives about difference. In Zoe Leonard's Tipping Point, English sees an embodiment of love in the face of brutality; in Kerry James Marshall's untitled 2015 portrait of a black male police officer, a greatly fraught subject treated without apparent judgment; in Pope. L's Skin Set Drawings, a life project undertaken to challenge codified uses of difference, color, and language; and, in a replica of the Lorraine Motel-the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968-a monument to the unfinished business of the integrated nonviolent movement for Civil Rights. These works unsettle and refuse to satisfy any particular political demand. Powerful, challenging, and timely, To Describe a Life is an invitation to rethink what life in ongoing crisis is and can be-and, indeed, to discover how art can help.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	0300230389 hardcover
ISBN	9780300230383 hardcover

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