{"title":"Cécile Bishop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCécile Bishop\u003c\/strong\u003e explores complex themes around identity and culture, delving deep into issues of race, representation, and education. Her work offers thought-provoking perspectives that challenge conventional understandings and invite critical reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful, well-researched texts that engage with social and cultural theory, often framed within the context of education and reference. Bishop’s writing is both accessible and intellectually rigorous, making her books essential for those interested in contemporary discussions on blackness and its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"forms-of-blackness-by-cecile-bishop-9781478033837","title":"Forms of Blackness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForms of Blackness\u003c\/em\u003e examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. Cécile Bishop offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and presses readers to question how to interpret what they see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsidering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, Cécile Bishop’s \u003cem\u003eForms of Blackness\u003c\/em\u003e explores the formal devices that make blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with black Francophone theorists like Édouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, Bishop uses the ambiguities these aesthetic forms carry to explore a range of identity concepts like opacity, formlessness, and doubleness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBishop puts blackness-as-race and blackness-as-form in dialogue, showing how race disrupts the concept of artistic autonomy and how the aesthetic challenges race as a self-evident visual phenomenon. When thought together, form does not isolate blackness from race but rather calls attention to the material substrate that turns race into a phenomenon that can be experienced through sense perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between careful analysis and experimental modes of critique, \u003cem\u003eForms of Blackness\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and offers a pressing invitation to question the ways we interpret what we see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934033068268,"sku":"9781478033837","price":347.51,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781478033837-forms-of-blackness.jpg?v=1783891513"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/cecile-bishop.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}