Bloodflowers - Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s

W. Ian Bourland is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art History at Georgetown University and editor of FAILE: Works on Wood.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Nothing to Lose  1
Exposure 1. Brixton  23
Exposure 2. Rage and Desire  58
Exposure 3. Magnolia Air  91
Exposure 4. The Queen Is Dead  146
Exposure 5. Mirror Worlds  171
Exposure 6. Night Moves  209
Epilogue. Homecoming  250
Notes  257
Bibliography  291
Index  305

About the author

W. Ian Bourland is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art History at Georgetown University and editor of FAILE: Works on Wood.

Summary

W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: W Ian Bourland, W. Ian Bourland
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781478000686
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0068-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its; Visual Arts of Africa and Its; The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV