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Find "Going There: Black Visual Satire" here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245745/going-there/
In this expansive study, Dr. Richard Powell presents the rich and varied history of African American visual satire in the 20th and 21st centuries, giving the work its due in all its intelligence, daring, and critical power and raising important questions about the social power of art.
Panelists:
• Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History, Duke University
• Huey Copeland, BFC Presidential Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
• Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
• Beverly McIver, Professor of the Practice in Visual Arts, Duke University
• Marcus Wood, Professor of English and Diaspora Studies, University of Sussex
The Faculty Bookwatch program promotes interdisciplinary conversations on major recent books by Duke humanities, interpretive social sciences, and arts faculty members. Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Libraries. Cosponsors are the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
Find "Going There: Black Visual Satire" here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245745/going-there/
In this expansive study, Dr. Richard Powell presents the rich and varied history of African American visual satire in the 20th and 21st centuries, giving the work its due in all its intelligence, daring, and critical power and raising important questions about the social power of art.
Panelists:
• Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History, Duke University
• Huey Copeland, BFC Presidential Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
• Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
• Beverly McIver, Professor of the Practice in Visual Arts, Duke University
• Marcus Wood, Professor of English and Diaspora Studies, University of Sussex
The Faculty Bookwatch program promotes interdisciplinary conversations on major recent books by Duke humanities, interpretive social sciences, and arts faculty members. Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Libraries. Cosponsors are the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
