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- Title
Chipping Away at the Artifice of Black Masculinity: Without the Hurt that Reality Makes.
- Authors
Richardson, Tanea
- Abstract
The article presents perspectives on the masculinity of African Americans or Blacks and on how the hip-hop culture internationally influence people. It examines the art works of Kehinde Wiley, a New York-based Black homosexual artist, and explores how he criticizes and destroys the heroic protection image of Black masculinity. Moreover, it looks at the strong reliance of Wiley's paintings, including "Support the Rural Population and Serve 500 million peasants," "The Virgen Martyr St. Cecilia" and "On Top of the World," on conventional styles encompassed by hip-hop.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MASCULINITY; POPULAR culture; HIP-hop culture; WILEY, Kehinde, 1977-; PAINTING; AFRICAN American artists; AFRICAN American art; RAP music
- Publication
Words.Beats.Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, 2010, Vol 4, Issue 2, p70
- ISSN
2151-0741
- Publication type
Article