Left of Black #19
w/ Hank Willis Thomas
January 31, 2011
***
In this special episode of Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Thomas’ works include Winter in America (2008), Branded (2008), ReBranded (2008), Black is Beautiful (2009), Fair Warning (2010) and UnBranded (2010) and he is the author of Pitch Blackness (2008). Neal and Thomas engage in a wide ranging conversation about Black masculinity, urban violence, the export of Black popular culture and Michael Jackson as well as a walk-thru of Thomas' Hope Exhibition at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
→Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He received his BA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography and MA in visual criticism from the California College of the Arts.
→Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He received his BA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography and MA in visual criticism from the California College of the Arts.
No comments:
Post a Comment