Art As Sanctuary

Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic

Michael D. Harris (Autor)

Dianne M. Stewart, Theophus H. Smith (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1506-2 (ISBN)

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In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in the Black experience and African diaspora art, including locales of spiritual expression, self-renewal, and cultural celebration. Harris offers an alternative framework to the Duboisian philosophy of double consciousness, pushing the boundaries of Africana aesthetic analysis by exploring the cultural signifiers embedded consciously or unconsciously in African diaspora art. Within these works, he reveals how these cultural cues speak to the vibrancy of African American life. While acknowledging the presence of the white observer’s gaze, Harris wishes to relieve the black interior from the panoptic assumptions of that gaze and its disciplines. Art as Sanctuary provides innovative pathways to understand African American visual culture and music as autobiographies of cultural identity and experience.

Michael D. Harris (1948–2022) was an artist, curator, scholar, and author of Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation. Dianne M. Stewart is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University. Theophus H. Smith is Emeritus Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University. Richard J. Powell is John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University and editor of Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, published by Duke University Press.

List of Illustrations vi
Foreword / Richard J. Powell ix
Editors’ Introduction. Michael D. Harris: Cultural Theorist of Africana Identity, Art, and Spirituality / Dianne M. Stewart and Theophus H. Smith xvii
Introduction. Sanctuary and the Black Interior 1
1. The Moan: Calling Forth Culture 27
2. Etymologies and Black Love 50
3. From The Banjo Lesson to The Piano Lesson: Reclaiming the Song 70
4. Fish Fry Music: A Blues Aesthetic 87
5. Gospel, Tongues, and Bearing Witness 114
6. Undone: Bottle Trees, Charms, and Flashing Spirits 132
7. Talking in Tongues: Revisiting/Reflecting Kara Walker 156
Conclusion. Bebop Ghosts and Freedom Songs 174
Notes 191
Bibliography 213
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Vorwort	Richard J. Powell
Zusatzinfo	86 color illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-1506-3 / 1478015063
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1506-2 / 9781478015062
Zustand	Neuware