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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Abstractionist Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:In a major reassessment of African American culture\, Phillip
  Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “
 proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for Africa
 n American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mod
 e whereby an artwork\, rather than striving for realist veris
 imilitude\, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial cha
 racter.  Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms 
 the very social facts that it might have been understood to 
 challenge\, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the 
 actual constructedness of those facts\, thereby subjecting th
 em to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transfor
 mation.
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