Description: No Humans Involved, Paperback by Christovale, Erin; Bogues, Anthony (CON); Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman (CON); Wynter, Sylvia (CON), ISBN 1942884761, ISBN-13 9781942884767, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Artists defy Western conceptions of the “human”
The term “no humans involved” emerged shortly after the 1991 beating of Rodney King, when it was discovered that the Los Angeles Police Department was using the term as a shorthand for casework that involved Black and Latino men and sex workers. In 1994, Jamaican scholar and theorist Sylvia Wynter challenged her academic colleagues to consider how they themselves might be contributing to the cultural mindset that gave rise to this exclusionary definition of human. In particular, Wynter highlighted the strong influence the notion of race has on the definition of the human and the social hierarchies and injustices that result from this link.
No Humans Involved collects works by contemporary artists that serve as a response to Wynter’s prompt. Among the artists featured are Eddie Aparicio, who uses large-scale, rubber casts of trees to document social and economic relationships between Latin America and the United States; Tau Lewis, a multidisciplinary artist who creates portraits out of culturally relevant found objects and recycled materials; and Wilmer Wilson IV, who investigates the marginalization of Black bodies in social relations through performance, sculpture, photography and other mediums. This collection of artworks from a diverse group of artists provides a contemporary response to Wynter’s call to action, addressing the social divisions present today and exploring opportunities for social unity.
Artists include: Eddie Aparicio, Tau Lewis, Las Nietas De Non, Sondra Perry, Sangree, Wangshui and Wilmer Wilson IV.
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Book Title: No Humans Involved
Number of Pages: 188 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Ann Philbin
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
