Stick to the Skin by Celeste-Marie Bernier - Hardcover

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"...[A] welcome new volume . . . . [and] a Herculean effort of naming and contextualizing an array of vital and frequently overlooked practices and methods. Its power as an intellectual project and teaching resource is to work inductively, sidestepping theory and allowing artists’ words to elaborate the specificity of art making as a form of individual exploration and collective intervention."
— caa.reviews - College Art Association

". . . a timely contribution to the field of Black diasporic art history. . . . Celeste-Marie Bernier offers respite from seemingly interminable institutional tendencies that continue to limit Black British and African American art to particular curatorial and art-historical jurisdictions. Whereas the former is often expediently defined within the historical parameters of the 1980s, the latter is rarely viewed in relation to other art histories, not least those of the United States. Stick to the Skin challenges these conventions and pathologies, bringing as it does a comparative study of the work of over fifty artists spanning half a century. . . . we can be grateful to Bernier who, as a UK-based academic, has taken it upon herself to produce a very tangible and substantial study on contemporary Black visual arts practice."
— Burlington Magazine

"Throughout, Bernier examines how art can dismantle, disrupt and challenge the status quo. It can be a form of radical protest, used to confront racism and white privilege in a world that continues to be threatened by outsiders and “others”. This remarkable book makes very clear how and why this is important, more so today than ever."
— Times Higher Ed

"A long-overdue comparative and interdisciplinary history of African American and Black British art and artists that gives critical voice and analytical exposure to those artists who have been alienated within their own marginalized status. Impressively thorough, praiseworthy, and necessarily bold."—James Smalls, Professor of Visual Arts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

"Celeste-Marie Bernier's necessary and timely research fosters crucial bridging of African American studies and Black British studies, advancing our deeper understanding of the Black Atlantic."—Dr. Zoe Whitley, co-curator of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

"Bernier has indeed produced a weighty study. Perhaps her greatest achievement in Stick to the Skin is the way in which she obliges us to see the merit, wisdom, and benefits of looking at Black artists in a range of wider contexts. Bernier emphatically overturns the insularity that has tended to be the hallmark of African American artists’ histories, and instead, proposes a bold and challenging set of new theoretical frameworks with which to consider the work of artists of the Black Atlantic over a period of half a century. This book will take its place as one of the most substantial tomes on the work of Black visual artists."—Eddie Chambers, Professor of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin

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