Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin by Elias, Amy J.
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin by Elias, Amy J.

Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private...
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SKU: 9781478030058
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Author: Amy J. Elias
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin by Elias, Amy J.

Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

$135.91
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin by Elias, Amy J.

Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

$135.91
Author: Amy J. Elias
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of Delaney's and Baldwin's works and examine how this friendship fundamentally shaped the pair's ideas about art and life. The book's contributors explore how the two men, sharing identities as queer Black American artists, first in New York and then as expatriates in France, created a speculative space in their work to think about more just and creative Black futures. Essay topics and issues range from masculinity, queerness, Blackness, and Americanness to the relationship between jazz, painting, and writing. Throughout, the contributors establish a positive history for Delaney's and Baldwin's arts that refuses a subordinate role to white artists of the modernist avant-garde. Ultimately, Speculative Light demonstrates that Delaney and Baldwin's bond provides revolutionary grounds for theorizing contemporary Black art and life.

Contributors. Hilton Als, Nicholas Boggs, Indie A. Choudhury, Shawn Anthony Christian, Rachel Cohen, Amy J. Elias, Monika Gehlawat, David Leeming, D. Quentin Miller, Fred Moten, Walton M. Muyumba, Robert O'Meally, Ed Pavlic, Levi Prombaum, Robert Reid-Pharr, Tyler T. Schmidt, Abbe Schriber, Jered Sprecher, Stephen C. Wicks, Magdalena Zaborowska

Author: Amy J. Elias
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781478030058

About the Author
Amy J. Elias is Chancellor's Professor and Director of the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction and coeditor of Time: A Vocabulary of the Present and The Planetary Turn.
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