Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form A Book Forum with Rizvana Bradley
October 21, 2024
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium

Join Prof. Rizvana Bradley, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies (Affiliated Faculty, History of Art, Center for Race and Gender) at the University of California, Berkeley, in a discussion of her recent book: Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023).

Published in 2023, this timely and necessary text explores the relationship between blackness and aesthetics in modern art and culture. Bradley will elaborate on key themes discussed throughout the book including the concept of “ante-formalism” as a method for critique, the connection between continental philosophy and black critical thought, and the black feminine figure as both the foundation and limit of modernity’s aesthetic regime.

The discussion will be facilitated and moderated by graduate student Jordan Mulkey (Modern Culture and Media). A reception and book signing will follow the conversation. Free and open to the public.

Co-convened by Jordan Mulkey, J.M. Nimocks and Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose.

This event is supported and made possible by Brown Arts Institute, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Modern Culture and Media (Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies)