{"product_id":"speculative-light-the-arts-of-beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-9781478024873","title":"Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin","description":"Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Light\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the stylistic and historical import of Delaney's and Baldwin's works and examine how this friendship fundamentally shaped the pair's ideas about art and life. The book's contributors explore how the two men, sharing identities as queer Black American artists, first in New York and then as expatriates in France, created a speculative space in their work to think about more just and creative Black futures. Essay topics and issues range from masculinity, queerness, Blackness, and Americanness to the relationship between jazz, painting, and writing. Throughout, the contributors establish a positive history for Delaney's and Baldwin's arts that refuses a subordinate role to white artists of the modernist avant-garde. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Light\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Delaney and Baldwin's bond provides revolutionary grounds for theorizing contemporary Black art and life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors. Hilton Als, Nicholas Boggs, Indie A. Choudhury, Shawn Anthony Christian, Rachel Cohen, Amy J. Elias, Monika Gehlawat, David Leeming, D. Quentin Miller, Fred Moten, Walton M. Muyumba, Robert O'Meally, Ed Pavlic, Levi Prombaum, Robert Reid-Pharr, Tyler T. Schmidt, Abbe Schriber, Jered Sprecher, Stephen C. Wicks, Magdalena Zaborowska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy J. Elias is Chancellor's Professor and Director of the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTime: A Vocabulary of the Present\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Planetary Turn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181115244818,"sku":"9781478024873","price":123.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be159a51-577f-4d49-9af9-65bce73b7fd4.jpg?v=1744390356","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/speculative-light-the-arts-of-beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-9781478024873","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}