Saturation

Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value

C. Riley Snorton, Hentyle Yapp

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English

MIT Press
19 May 2020

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Museums & museology; Social discrimination

Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture

Essays, conversations, and artist portfolios confront questions at the intersection of race, institutional life, and representation.

Controversies involving race and the art world are often discussed in terms of diversity and representation-as if having the right representative from a group or a larger plurality of embodied difference would absolve art institutions from historic forms of exclusion. This book offers another approach, taking into account not only questions of racial representation but also issues of structural change and the redistribution of resources. In essays, conversations, discussions, and artist portfolios, contributors confront in new ways questions at the intersection of art, race, and representation.

Thebook uses saturation as an organizing concept, in part to suggest that current paradigms cannot encompass the complex realities of race. Saturation provides avenues to situate race as it relates to perception, science, aesthetics, the corporeal, and the sonic. In color theory, saturation is understood in terms of the degree to which a color differs from whiteness. In science, saturation points describe not only the moment in which race exceeds legibility, but also how diversity operates for institutions. Contributors consider how racialization, globalization, and the production and consumption of art converge in the art market, engaging such topics as racial capitalism, the aesthetics of colonialism, and disability cultures. They examine methods for theorizing race and representation, including ""aboutness,"" which interprets artworks by racialized subjects as being ""about"" race; modes of unruly, decolonized, and queer visual practices that resist disciplinary boundaries; and a model by which to think with and alongside blackness and indigeneity.

Copublished with the New Museum

Edited by: C. Riley Snorton, Hentyle Yapp
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 171mm, Spine: 33mm
ISBN: 9780262043687
ISBN 10: 0262043688
Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 19 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

C. Riley Snorton is Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Black on Both Sides- A Racial History of Trans Identity and Nobody Is Supposed to Know- Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Hentyle Yapp is Assistant Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University, where he is also an Affiliated Faculty Member in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, as well as the Center for Disability Studies and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute.