Bound to Appear : art, slavery, and the site of blackness in multicultural AmericaPublication Date: 2013-01-01
At the close of the twentieth century, black artists began to figure prominently in the mainstream American art world for the first time. Yet in this moment of ostensible freedom, black cultural practitioners found themselves turning to the history of slavery. "Bound to Appear" focuses on four of these artists - Renee Green, Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, and Fred Wilson - who have dominated and shaped the field of American art over the past two decades through large-scale installations that radically departed from prior conventions for representing the enslaved.