Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory

ISBN-13: 9788862087803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 176 str.

O autorze

Cheryl Finley, PhD, is Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College. Committed to engaging strategic partners to transform the art and culture industry, she leads an innovative undergraduate program at the world's largest HBCU consortium in preparing the next generation of African American museum and visual arts professionals. She is a curator, contemporary art critic and award-winning author noted for Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018), the first in depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery - a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold - and the art, architecture, poetry, and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. At Cornell University, where she is Associate Professor of Art History, Dr. Finley's current book project, Black Art Futures, offers a roadmap of the global art economy, focusing on the relationship among artists, museums, biennials, and migration.

Curator and photographer Deborah Willis, PhD is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Press, 20221) and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2009), among others. Professor Willis's curated exhibitions include: "Framing Moments in the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts", "Migrations and Meanings in Art", "Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits" and "Out of Fashion Photography", among others.