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Black and Gold: Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

By (author) W. Ian Bourland

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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 Europeâ€™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 contradictionâ€”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 connectionsâ€”the mining of gold on the continent and its relationship to the diaspora; â€œBlack goldâ€ as a colloquialism for oil; and Blackness as a form of cultural â€œgold.â€ 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.

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