The cultural politics of worldmaking practice
Kehinde Wiley's cosmopolitanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | André M Carrington (0000-0003-4274-8087, Drexel University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-257 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528631.2015.1027325 |
| OpenAlex | W2036528364 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Contemporary African-American artist Kehinde Wiley recasts Old Master paintings with contemporary black models and other denizens of the Global South in a stylized interrogation of the historical legacy of fine art. By conceptualizing Wiley's portraiture as a practice of worldmaking, I will argue that his work reconfigures the relationship between visual culture and subjectivity, offering a powerful response to the norms of racial, gendered, and class representation inherited from modernity. Consequently, I argue, Wiley's work takes part in an evolving discourse of cosmopolitanism that extends the ongoing work of Paul Gilroy, Anthony Appiah, Monica Miller, Simon Gikandi, and others to imagine modernity, blackness, and diaspora as interrelated phenomena on a planetary scale
Cosmopolitanism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Australian History and Society · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
Disidentifications
In the break
Scenes of subjection
Cultural Ways of Worldmaking
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
The Practice of Diaspora
Extravagant Abjection
Cities of the Dead
Cosmopolitanism
Policing the Crisis
Policing the Crisis
Laboring Women
Convergence Culture
Convergence Culture
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement
Introduction
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Solidarity and Schism
The Archive and the Repertoire
Solidarity and Schism
Pornotropes
Babylon Girls
Class Imagery in a National Sample of Women and Men
Planetarity and cosmopolitics
Post-Soul Aesthetics in Contemporary African American Art
Black Masculinity and Visual Culture
Ways of Worldmaking
Hegemonic Masculinity
Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |