Afro-Atlantic Aesthetic Ideas and Decoloniality: A case study by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Starting from the formulation of a concept for “aesthetic principles”, this article studies the proposition of the African-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) - expressed, in his own words, in the strategy of “attacking the circuit of galleries at that time”- to transpose political-terr...

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Autor: Rainho, Hélio Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Em Tempo de Histórias (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/31249
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/emtempos/article/view/31249
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ideários Estéticos; Basquiat; Decolonialidade; Racismo.
Aesthetic Principles. Basquiat. Decoloniality.
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Sumario:Starting from the formulation of a concept for “aesthetic principles”, this article studies the proposition of the African-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) - expressed, in his own words, in the strategy of “attacking the circuit of galleries at that time”- to transpose political-territorial limits of a hegemonically white artistic field and inscribe his art through aesthetic signs that challenge the Eurocentric identity agencies that confer blackout, invisibility and primitivism to Afro-Atlantic artistic legacies.