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Reframing Blackness
What’s Black about “History of Art”?
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An original and wide-ranging riposte to the current understanding of Blackness in Western art and museums, from an upcoming curator and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt. Akinkugbe is a brilliant new writer and thinker challenging art history. This book is urgent, essential, accessible and it needs to be...
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An original and wide-ranging riposte to the current understanding of Blackness in Western art and museums, from an upcoming curator and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt.
Akinkugbe is a brilliant new writer and thinker challenging art history. This book is urgent, essential, accessible and it needs to be on every art history reading list. — Bernardine Evaristo
Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored.
In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this void.
Exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art, as well as Blackness in museums, in feminist art movements, and in the curriculum, Alayo unveils an overlooked but integral part of our collective art history.
Refreshing and accessible, this promises to start a much-needed conversation in culture and education.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529186406
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 10 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Merky Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 143.0mm
Height: 224.0mm
Weight: 479g
Pages: 176
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About the Author
Alayo Akinkugbe graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in History of Art in 2021 and graduated with an MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023. She runs the Instagram platform @ABlackHistoryofArt, which highlights Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history and the present day; and hosts the podcast A Shared Gaze. Alayo is a contributing editor and writes the column 'Black Gazes' for AnOther Magazine. She was awarded a curatorial research grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for the exhibition Entangled Pasts- Art Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy of Arts. Alayo was on the advisory panel and contributed to the book African Artists- From 1882 to Now, published by Phaidon in 2021, and has written for publications including Dazed, Tate Etc. and The World of Interiors. Reframing Blackness is her first book.
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