To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror

by Darby English

A passionate, rigorous, and persuasive look at the helpful complexity of art during a time of profound cultural turmoil

By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art--and love--as a resource amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in or for our tumultuous present that address themes of racial violence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300230389
• ISBN13: 9780300230383
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 10.2"