Pinn/Embodiment and Black Religion, 3. Making Bodies with a Brush Stroke

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How to Cite: Writing Collective, CERCL. 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. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 47-58 Oct 2017. ISBN 9781781793466.

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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.

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  • container title
    Embodiment and Black Religion: Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience
  • creator
    CERCL Writing Collective
  • isbn
    9781781795873 (eBook)
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
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    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.1558/isbn.9781781795873