{"product_id":"speculative-light-the-arts-of-beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-paperback-softback-9781478030058","title":"Speculative Light; The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin (Paperback \/ softback) 9781478030058","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpeculative Light\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy J. Elias (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478030058\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 57 illustrations, including 33 in color\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.612 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This is a vibrant, timely, and vital collection of essays that illuminate how we can read James Baldwin through Beauford Delaney’s paintings and see Delaney’s paintings through Baldwin’s writing. Placing the lives and works of these two close friends side by side tells us much about kinship, intimacy, and craft, not only in relation to Delaney and Baldwin but in African American culture more broadly.” - Douglas Field, author of (Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me) “James Baldwin was most moving when recalling the aesthetic education he received from Beauford Delaney-who taught him both how to listen, ‘to hear [in Black music] what I had never dared or been able to hear,’ and how to see ‘and . . . trust what I saw.’ \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Light\u003c\/i\u003e bears extraordinary witness to the lives of two men, devoted to their craft, moving always in the direction of wonder and uncertainty, buoyed by that loving and shared sense of attunement.” - Stephen Best, author of (None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life) \"This book peers into an intimate relationship between two Black, queer men who grappled with the harsh lens of shame and found solace in their art and one another; two friends, platonic lovers, mentor and mentee, who knew each other in ways their voracious public could not. We owe much of Baldwin’s oeuvre to Delaney, and we owe it to Delaney to look again.\" - Jasmine Weber (Hyperallergic)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOver the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another’s artistic values. \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Light\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of Delaney's and Baldwin’s works and examine how this friendship fundamentally shaped the pair's ideas about art and life. The book’s contributors explore how the two men, sharing identities as queer Black American artists, first in New York and then as expatriates in France, created a speculative space in their work to think about more just and creative Black futures. Essay topics and issues range from masculinity, queerness, Blackness, and Americanness to the relationship between jazz, painting, and writing. Throughout, the contributors establish a positive history for Delaney's and Baldwin’s arts that refuses a subordinate role to white artists of the modernist avant-garde. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Light\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Delaney and Baldwin's bond provides revolutionary grounds for theorizing contemporary Black art and life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors. Hilton Als, Nicholas Boggs, Indie A. Choudhury, Shawn Anthony Christian, Rachel Cohen, Amy J. Elias, Monika Gehlawat, David Leeming, D. Quentin Miller, Fred Moten, Walton M. Muyumba, Robert O’Meally, Ed Pavlić, Levi Prombaum, Robert Reid-Pharr, Tyler T. Schmidt, Abbe Schriber, Jered Sprecher, Stephen C. Wicks, Magdalena Zaborowska\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin \/ Amy J. Elias  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Circuits of Selfhood\u003cbr\u003e 1. Jimmy and Beauford: The Bond of the Unusual Door \/ David Leeming  39\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Mentor: James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and the Habit of Doing \/ Hilton Als  50\u003cbr\u003e 3. “\u003cbr\u003eYou Pay for Your Life with Your Life”\u003cbr\u003e: James Baldwin’\u003cbr\u003es Search for Jimmy Baldwin, 1969–\u003cbr\u003e1972 \/ Ed Pavlić  53\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beauford Delaney’\u003cbr\u003es Black Queer Fatherhood \/ Magdalena J. Zaborowska  66\u003cbr\u003e II. Synesthesia and Arts in Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e 5. Blue(s) as Cymbal: Beauford Delaney (Elvin Jones) James Baldwin \/ Fred Moten  79\u003cbr\u003e 6. Baldwin and Delaney: Yellows and Blues \/ Robert G. O’\u003cbr\u003eMeally  98\u003cbr\u003e 7. Chiaroscuro, Delaney’\u003cbr\u003es Aesthetic Vision, and Baldwin’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eSonny’\u003cbr\u003es Blues”\u003cbr\u003e \/ D. Quentin Miller  119\u003cbr\u003e 8. Yellow Light, Black Abstraction: Jazz, Writing, and Ethical Shattering in Baldwin’\u003cbr\u003es and Delaney’\u003cbr\u003es Works \/ Walton M. Muyumba  131\u003cbr\u003e 9. Baldwin\/Delaney\/Cazac \/ Nicholas Boggs  146\u003cbr\u003e 10. Singed Innocence: Baldwin, Delaney, and the Problematic Black Child \/ Robert F. Reid-Pharr  160\u003cbr\u003e III. Visibility, Performance, Abstraction\u003cbr\u003e 11. Baldwin and Delaney: The Politics and Performance of Black Sight \/ Indie A. Choudhury  171\u003cbr\u003e 12. Shared Subjects \/ Rachel Cohen  187\u003cbr\u003e 13. Choosing Both: Abstraction and Singularity in Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin \/ Monika Gehlewat  197\u003cbr\u003e 14: “\u003cbr\u003eArchitects of the Spirit”\u003cbr\u003e: Color and Intimacy in Beauford Delaney’\u003cbr\u003es Post-1950 Abstractions \/ Abbe Schriber  208\u003cbr\u003e 15. Feeling Modernist: Beauford Delaney’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e (1944) \/ Levi Prombaum  224\u003cbr\u003e 16. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Giacometti Effect”\u003cbr\u003e: Reconsidering Beauford Delaney’\u003cbr\u003es 1966 Portrait Bust of James Baldwin \/ Stephen C. Wicks  240\u003cbr\u003e IV. Continuing Influence\u003cbr\u003e 17. Queer Radiance: Beauford Delaney at the Bathhouse \/ Tyler T. Schmidt  251\u003cbr\u003e 18. Baldwin, Delaney, and Black Artists’\u003cbr\u003e Genealogical Legacies \/ Shawn Anthony Christian  266\u003cbr\u003e 19. In a Speculative Light: The Portrait Project \/ Jered Sprecher  278\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  289\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  309\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Plate Credits\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520749039896,"sku":"9781478030058","price":23.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/speculative-light-the-arts-of-beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-paperback-softback-9781478030058","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}