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Author: W. Ian Bourland
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In Bloodflowers 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. Born in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, DC, New York, and London, where he produced the bulk of his provocative and often surrealist and homoerotic photographs of black men. Bourland situates Fani-Kayode's work in a time of global transition and traces how it exemplified and responded to profound social, cultural, and political change. In addition to his formal analyses of Fani-Kayode's portraiture, Bourland outlines the important influence that surrealism, neo-Romanticism, Yoruban religion, the AIDS crisis, experimental film, loft culture, and house and punk music had on Fani-Kayode's work. In so doing, Bourland offers new perspectives on a pivotal artist whose brief career continues to resonate with deep aesthetic and social meaning.

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Title Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
Author W. Ian Bourland
Binding Hardback
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Duke University Press
Publication date 2019-02-15
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9781478000686 / 1478000686
Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
Category Photography
Library of Congress subjects Photography of the nude, Photography - Social aspects
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018032576
Dewey Decimal Code 779.21

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Choice, 09/01/2019, Page 0

About the author

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

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