Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art

By Nana Adusei-Poku

In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas - and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837652947
• ISBN13: 9783837652949
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"