A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See
Tina Campt
The MIT Press
In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. She focuses on artists whose works require viewers to do more than simply look; they solicit visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity -- shifting viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze.