The Visual Dynamics of Art, Black Care, and Ethics in South African Art

This book interprets relationships among art and ethics in the context of contemporary South African art

Raél Jero Salley is a Professor of History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Founding Creative Director of The Space for Creative Black Imagination, Inc., Producer of "Making Art History Now" (a collaboration between Yale University and La Biennale di Venezia), Curator of "Looking Rights Exhibition" at Johns Hopkins University, supported by the Mellon Foundation. An internationally recognized advisor, creative, and scholar, Salley has held positions at various institutions including the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Getty Research Institute (AAAHI), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Columbia College Chicago, the University of Chicago, the Universiteit van Amsterdam (STIAS), the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Witwatersrand, and as Honorary Research Faculty in Philosophy at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

List of figures Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Touching Insights 2. Looking with Care 3. Imagining, Persons, Archives (Zanele Muholi) 4. Form, Idea, Passage (Mohau Modisekeng) 5. Exuberance, Fiction, Revolution (Dineo Seshee Bopape) 6. Place, Belonging, Formative Realism (Husain & Husan Essop) 7. Spirits, Histories, Fictions (Kemang Wa Lehulere) 8. Citizenship, Performance, Potential (Machona, Kukama, Mbongwa) 9. Coda: Knowledge, Ethics, Imagination (In Lieu of an Ending)