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Book, 2015
Current format, Book, 2015, First edition, Available now.
Book, 2015
Current format, Book, 2015, First edition, Available now. Offered in 0 more formats
Robin Coste Lewis's collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus,' a narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present-titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race-a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
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