{"title":"Books by Amber Jamilla Musser","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781479830954","title":"Sensual Excess","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess\u003c\/i\u003e, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters.\u003cbr\u003e To do so, \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer frameworks for minoritarian knowledge production which is designed to enable one to sit with uncertainty. Through examinations of installations and performances like Judy Chicago's \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e, Kara Walker's \u003ci\u003eA Subtlety,\u003c\/i\u003e Patty Chang's\u003ci\u003e In Love \u003c\/i\u003eand Nao Bustamante's \u003ci\u003eNeapolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, Musser unpacks the relationships between racialized sexuality and consumption to interrogate foundational concepts in psychoanalytic theory, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess\u003c\/i\u003e offers a project of knowledge production focused not on mastery, but on sensing and imagining otherwise, whatever and wherever that might be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301077430645,"sku":"9781479830954","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781479830954_fdaa38d1-d188-4065-a3b2-1c5bd865a93c.jpg?v=1786022106"},{"product_id":"9781478030096","title":"Between Shadows and Noise","description":"In \u003ci\u003eBetween Shadows and Noise\u003c\/i\u003e Amber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held by the body to access the unrepresentable. Thinking through Blackness, empire, and colonialism, Musser examines artworks ranging from Ming Smith’s \u003ci\u003eFlamingo Fandango\u003c\/i\u003e, Jordan Peele’s \u003ci\u003eUs\u003c\/i\u003e, and Katherine Dunham’s \u003ci\u003eShango\u003c\/i\u003e to Samita Sinha’s \u003ci\u003eThis ember state\u003c\/i\u003e, Titus Kaphar’s \u003ci\u003eA Pillow for Fragile Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, and Teresita FernÁndez’s \u003ci\u003ePuerto Rico (Burned) 6\u003c\/i\u003e. She engages with these works from an embodied situatedness to grapple with the questions and sensations of racialization and difference that the works produce. Throughout, Musser rethinks how we consider the relationships between race, representation, and politics by dwelling in those spaces and concepts that elude Western norms of representation, objectivity, and logic. In so doing, she explores ways of being and knowing that exceed overdetermined parameters while offering a blueprint for sensing, imagining, and living otherwise.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301390004597,"sku":"9781478030096","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478030096_ba98f0be-c16c-47ac-ac11-3dc441df4b88.jpg?v=1786021637"},{"product_id":"9781949172614","title":"The De Luxe Show","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 50th-anniversary tribute to one of America’s first racially integrated exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 1971 Peter Bradley mounted the landmark exhibition \u003ci\u003eThe De Luxe Show\u003c\/i\u003e at the legendary DeLUXE theater in Houston's Fifth Ward. \u003ci\u003eThe De Luxe Show\u003c\/i\u003e was a milestone in civil rights history, as one of the first racially integrated shows in the United States. Curated by Bradley with the backing of collector and philanthropist John de Menil, the exhibition featured emerging and established abstract modern painters and sculptors of the time, including Darby Bannard, Peter Bradley, Anthony Caro, Dan Christensen, Ed Clark, Frank Davis, Sam Gilliam, Robert Gordon, Richard Hunt, Virginia Jaramillo, Daniel Johnson, Craig Kauffman, Alvin Loving, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Michael Steiner, William T. Williams and James Wolfe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn August 2021, for its 50th anniversary, Karma and Parker Gallery staged a contemporary bicoastal tribute to \u003ci\u003eThe De Luxe Show\u003c\/i\u003e. The tribute honors the long, pioneering legacies of the artists of \u003ci\u003eThe De Luxe Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and continues the dialogue between these innovators in the field of abstraction that began 50 years ago. This fully illustrated catalog includes texts and installation images from the original 1971 catalog, as well as a newly commissioned text by Amber Jamilla Musser and a text by Bridget R. Cooks that expands upon her 2013 essay in \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313217253749,"sku":"9781949172614","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781949172614_7d5cc8e4-37cd-49cb-a061-669ce3c1797e.jpg?v=1786030694"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-amber-jamilla-musser.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}