Thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universitat Berlin, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-311)
Contents:
Sharing Silences: Inter-klas Dialogues in the Art Scene of Port-au-Prince -- Conditional Hospitality: Atis Rezistans in European and U.S. American Art Institutions -- Gestures of Generosity: Politics of Emotions at the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince -- Between Harmony and Anger: Exhibition Spaces by Eugene, Guyodo, Getho, and Papa Da -- Disobedient Musealities: The Master's Tools Revisited -- Resume: Alleviative Objects, or Translating Black Suffering into White Pedagogy
Summary:
"The global field of contemporary art is shaped by inter-racial conflicts. Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through intersectional entanglements and combines decolonial epistemologies with critical whiteness studies and affect theory in order to rethink `Euro- and U.S.-centric' perspectives on art, race, and class. David Frohnapfel shows how progressive racism in the discourse on Haitian art recenters Whiteness by performing benign identifications with the artist group Atis Rezistans. While the study turns critically towards Whiteness, it also turns away from it and towards the compelling contributions of Haitian curators and artists to the decentralization of contemporary art."--Back cover
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