Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form by Rizvana Bradley (2023)

In Anteaesthetics, Dr. Rizvana Bradley writes on how Blackness is unable to be truly represented by how we think of and study art up until this point. I am particularly compelled by her writing on the “aporias of form” or the unsolvable questions. The artists that I am interested in upend the principles often used to qualify and categorize visual art and more broadly, Blackness. They exist in a “post-medium” realm that shifts conventions of how art history is traditional studied.