Name: Black and Gold. Transmutations of Metal and Modernity
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Author: W. Ian Bourland
ISBN: 9780271101293

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Black and Gold. Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Pennsylvania State University Press

Autor

W. Ian Bourland

Colección

AFRICANAS

Año

2026

N° páginas

214

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.90 x 15.20 x 2.10 cm

ISBN13

9780271101293

Black and Gold. Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

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For centuries, Africa has been the center of global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, the precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe’s colonial empires and the contemporary world made in its wake. Black and gold have thus always been conjoined, and yet long set in opposition: Blackness as negation, gold as universal standard of value. Black & Gold is a genealogy of this seeming contradiction—a global history of value told through episodes of Black creative practice. Featuring the work of acclaimed contemporary artists such as Yinka Shonibare, Theaster Gates, Wangechi Mutu, El Anatsui, Chris Ofili, and Kerry James Marshall, this book unearths a series of historical and ecological connections—the mining of gold on the continent and its relationship to the diaspora; “Black gold” as a colloquialism for oil; and Blackness as a form of cultural “gold.” By bringing early modern histories of alchemy, art, and colonial contact into the present, W. Ian Bourland tells a multifaceted story about the fetishization of gold, driven by an impulse to extract Blackness and refine people and matter into ever greater forms of abstraction with devastating consequences for the environment and humanity. In simplest terms, Black & Gold reconsiders the material and symbolic life of gold and the Black labor that has always sustained it. It will resonate with art critics and scholars, museumgoers and collectors, and anyone interested in modern and contemporary art, the Black Atlantic, and global histories of empire and culture.