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In recent decades, Black artists have been radically rethinking the history of art by taking on slavery, colonialism, power, beauty, and racial and cultural authority. Through direct references to the art and culture of the Baroque era (ca. 1600–1800) and to Black Neo-Baroque aesthetics and sensibilities, this talk, led by Dr. Adrienne L. Childs, considers how contemporary Black artists such as Rashaad Newsome, Hew Locke, Vanessa German, and Simone Leigh engage theatricality, spectacle, exuberance, ornamentation, and luxury to redress historical absences and assert bold and spectacular presence.
In 2022, Dr. Childs became the seventeenth Driskell Prize recipient. Established by the High Museum of Art in 2005, the David C. Driskell Prize is the first national award to honor and celebrate an early- or midcareer artist whose work makes an original or significant contribution to the field of African American art or art history.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
In recent decades, Black artists have been radically rethinking the history of art by taking on slavery, colonialism, power, beauty, and racial and cultural authority. Through direct references to the art and culture of the Baroque era (ca. 1600–1800) and to Black Neo-Baroque aesthetics and sensibilities, this talk, led by Dr. Adrienne L. Childs, considers how contemporary Black artists such as Rashaad Newsome, Hew Locke, Vanessa German, and Simone Leigh engage theatricality, spectacle, exuberance, ornamentation, and luxury to redress historical absences and assert bold and spectacular presence.
In 2022, Dr. Childs became the seventeenth Driskell Prize recipient. Established by the High Museum of Art in 2005, the David C. Driskell Prize is the first national award to honor and celebrate an early- or midcareer artist whose work makes an original or significant contribution to the field of African American art or art history.
Visit the High Museum: high.org
