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Ruth Leon recommends. Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined

Ruth Leon recommends.   Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined

Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined

This is a fascinating illustrated lecture from the Met Museum, given by Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art.

Artists such as Dudley Murphy, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Mickalene Thomas,   and Nina Chanel Abney use angular and fractured forms that resonate with the cultural effects of ragtime, jazz, hip-hop, and other Black performing arts traditions.

They plumb Cubism’s strategies and theoretical formations, weighing the value of universal signs and imaging systems and probing art’s contested identities.Read more

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