REFRAMING BLACKNESS

Akinkugbe is a brilliant new writer and thinker challenging art history This book is urgent essential accessible and it needs to be on every art history reading list Bernardine Evaristo A sparkling debut Bold eloquent personal and clear eyed Alayo Akinkugbe is a major new voice in writing about art museums and culture This book will shift your frames of reference expand your canvas and give you hope for the future changing how you look at art while also making you look again at your ways of seeing Dan Hicks author of The Brutish Museums Thorough accessible essential Katy Hessel author of The Story of Art without Men To explore a history of Black communities across centuries of art is a love letter to the practice a gift of knowledge and an ode to those who s creative expressions give us much to be inspired by today Sofia Akel cultural historian and founder Since the inception of mainstream art history Blackness has been distinctly ignored In Reframing Blackness art historian and founder of ABlackHistoryOfArt Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this void Exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art as well as Blackness in museums in feminist art movements and in the curriculum Alayo unveils an overlooked but integral part of ou