Bloodflowers Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980S - The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas
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In Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Born in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, DC, New York, and London, where he produced the bulk of his provocative and often surrealist and homoerotic photographs of black men. Bourland situates Fani-Kayode's work in a time of global transition and traces how it exemplified and responded to profound social, cultural, and political change. In addition to his formal analyses of Fani-Kayode's portraiture, Bourland outlines the important influence that surrealism, neo-Romanticism, Yoruban religion, the AIDS crisis, experimental film, loft culture, and house and punk music had on Fani-Kayode's work. In so doing, Bourland offers new perspectives on a pivotal artist whose brief career continues to resonate with deep aesthetic and social meaning.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781478000891 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 15 Feb 2019 |
DEWEY: | 779.21 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 336 |
Weight: | 630g |
Height: | 156mm |
Width: | 230mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |