Love is the Message: Barkley Hendricks’s MFSB Portrait Aesthetics

Barkley L. Hendricks’s (1945-2017) portraiture is considered in relation to camp’s liminal nature. Hendricks employs the camp techniques of surface emphasis, and affective audience engagement, to relay a political message of black agency. His portraiture is framed with dynamics of MFSB, a popular cu...

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Main Author: Hyacinthe Genevieve
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-12-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0057