Title:
Black, queer & untold : a new archive of designers, artists, & trailblazers
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Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
Montclair : Levine Querido, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
445 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781646143764
Abstract:
Growing up in Seale, Alabama, as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who got him. So he started asking himself questions: What did it mean to be a graphic designer with his point of view? What did it mean to be a Black graphic designer? A Queer graphic designer? Someone from the South? Could his identity be communicated through a poster or a book? How could identity be archived in a design canon that has consistently erased contributions by designers who were not white, straight, and male? In Black, Queer, & Untold, acclaimed designer and artist Jon Key answers these questions and manifests the book he and so many others wish they had when they were coming up. He pays tribute to the incredible designers, artists, and people who came before and provides them an enduring, reverential stage - and in so doing, gifts us a book that takes its place among the creative arts canon. --Back cover.
General Note:
"This is an Arthur A. Levine book"--Title page verso.
Contents:
The call -- 19th century (1800-1899) ; Freedom's Journal ; The North Star ; The Freeman ; Mary Jones ; William Dorsey Swann ; Penny newspapers ; Jack Brown ; Hamilton Lodge Ball -- The early 20th century (1900-1930s) ; Colored American Magazine ; W.E.B. Du Bois ; Charles Dawson ; The Queer Harlem Renaissance ; The Crisis ; Alain Locke ; The New Negro ; Wallace Thurman ; Langston Hughes ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Opportunity Magazine ; Survey Graphic ; Fire!! ; Richard Bruce Nugent ; Harlem Magazine ; Black Opals ; Saturday Evening Quill ; The Messenger ; Ma Rainey ; Bessie Smith ; Gladys Bentley -- Mid-century and civil rights (1940s-1960s) ; Bayard Rustin ; Jewel Box Revue ; Stormé DeLarverie ; Jet and Ebony ; LeRoy Winbush ; Mattachine Society ; One ; The Ladder ; Daughters of Bilitis ; Ernestine Eckstein ; James Baldwin ; Lorraine Hansberry ; Audre Lorde ; Toni Morrison ; Mozelle W. Thompson, Jr. -- 70s and counterculture ; Tom Doerr ; Lambda ; Pink Triangle ; Black Artist in Graphic Communication ; The Black Panther Party ; Emory Douglas ; Motown and Queer music ; Dynamic superiors ; Sylvester ; Laini Abernathy ; Zines ; The Echo of Sappho ; Fag Rag ; Gay Liberator ; 3rd world gay revolution ; Gay Flames -- 80s, 90s and AIDS ; Alan Bell ; BLK ; Gaysweek ; Michael's Thing ; Public Places ; Black Jack ; Blackfire ; Kuumba ; Black Lace ; Ric Irick and Malebox! ; Gregory D. Victorianne and Buti Voxx ; Ajamu X and BLAC/Wickers and Bullers ; Venus ; Thing and Think Ink ; Joan Jett-Blakk -- 2000s-present ; The Tenth Magazine ; Hello, Mr. ; Posture Magazine ; Clikque/Clik ; Tré Seals ; Nijel Taylor ; Brontez Purnell ; De Nichols ; Silas Munro -- The response -- Backmatter.
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Language:
English
