Embodiment and Black Religion - Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience - CERCL Writing Collective
3. Making Bodies with a Brush Stroke: African American Visual Art and the Re/constitution of Black Embodiment
Embodiment and Black Religion - Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience - CERCL Writing Collective
CERCL Writing Collective [+]
Rice University
The authors of this volume are the members of Rice University's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning Writing Collective: Anthony B. Pinn, Jessica B. Davenport, Justine M. Bakker, Cleve V. Tinsley IV, Biko Mandela Gray, David A. Kline, Jason O. Jeffries, Sharde' N. Chapman and Mark A. DeYoung
Description
Through an analysis of Jean Michel Basquiat’s artwork, we point to the function of visual art by arguing that Basquiat’s images of bodies without organs, or deconstructed bodies, reflect an understanding of the body that is fluid, undefined, and ever-changing. Basquiat’s paintings thus “re-present” black bodies and black life beyond fixed, stereotypical depictions.