A blurred bookshop background. In the foreground sits a small pile of hardback books with another of the same title standing atop it. The book is Reframing Blackness by Alayo Akinkugbe. The cover is black with white and gold lettering and an image of Lawdy Mama(1969) by Barkley L.Hendricks. The artwork shows a Black woman wearing a black and red striped dress staring directly at the viewer, holding her right elbow with her left hand. She is framed by a golden arched background made from gold leaf and the sitter’s afro has a halo-like quality that mirrors the arched framing.
‘Since the inception of mainstream art history Blackness has been distinctly ignored’.
Art historian Alayo Akinkugbe addresses this in her debut, exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art, museums & in feminist art.
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