ABSTRACTIONIST AESTHETICS
Book ID/图书代码： 14932715B80493
English Summary/英文概要： In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the "proper" depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism--a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for "positive" representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 非裔美国人文化中的一个重要评估, Phillip Brian Harper介入有关黑人的“正确”的描述正在进行的辩论。他主张对非洲裔美国人的审美抽象主义————一个代表性的模式，即一件艺术品，而不是追求写实逼真，大力断言其本质人为性质。重申保持这种现实主义的代表性，它可能被理解为挑战了社会事实， Harper认为，抽象显示了这些事实的实际建构性，从而对它们进行严格审查，并使其适于转化。驳斥“正”的表现的需要，抽象派美学取代了现实主义的非洲裔美国人的代表性美学的主要方式，去重新找回文学作为一个非裔美国人的文化政治的主要立场，和提升实验散文领域内的非裔美国文学。借鉴的例子产生于各种艺术中，包括Fred Wilson 和Kara Walker的视觉艺术作品，Billie Holiday 和 Cecil Taylor的音乐， Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, 和John Keene的散文和诗歌作品。这本书提出了关于种族黑暗是承担一定的社会意义的紧迫问题。在这个过程中,非裔美国人审美是颠覆,呈现抽象派艺术作为黑色展现最强大的形态。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Phillip Brian Harper是 Erich Maria Remarque在纽约大学的文学教授，在那里他教授英国社会与文化分析。他是《私人事务》（纽约出版社，1999）、《我们是不是人类》与《框死利率》的作者。
Phillip Brian Harper is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University, where he teaches in the Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and of English. He is the author of the books Private Affairs (NYU Press, 1999), Are We Not Men? and Framing the Margins.
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