<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Eshun, Ekow]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Eshun, Ekow]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/seattle/rss/search?query=Eshun%2C%20Ekow&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:31:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[In the Black Fantastic]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the Black Fantastic' assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. It brings to life the forces that shape Afrofuturism - the cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday of Black experience - and beyond, looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity - based as they are on the historical subjugation of people of colour - the book explores how Black artists are drawing inspiration from African-originated myth, knowledge systems and spiritual practices to confound the Western dichotomy between the real and unreal, the natural and the supernatural. With 250 illustrations spanning the spheres of photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, literature and architecture, this book reaches across time, space and art form, drawing together everything from works by leading visual artists such as Kara Walker, Chris Ofili and Lina Iris Viktor to groundbreaking films like Black Panther and Get Out and the radical politics of pan-Africanism.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3812082</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3812082</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3812082030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780262047258/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Strangers]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger, outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien; one who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in his own right, but the representative of a type. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? What happens beneath the mask--what is the cost to the mind and body, to one's relationships and one's sense of self? Searching for answers, Ekow Eshun channels the voices of five very different individuals. Each man a renowned trailblazer in his field. Each man haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each man a stranger in his own world: Ira Aldridge, nineteenth century British actor and playwright; Matthew Henson, the first Black man to reach the North Pole; Frantz Fanon, French-Martinican psychiatrist and political philosopher; Malcolm X, civil rights activist and leader; Justin Fashanu, Britain's first openly gay professional footballer. Telling their stories, Eshun pushes the boundaries of genre to capture them in all their complexity, interweaving biography, fiction, historical record, and memoir, sharing his own experiences living as a Black Briton in the art world. The Strangers illuminates both the hostility and the beauty each man encountered in the world, positioning them all within a wider landscape of Black art, culture, history, and politics throughout the diaspora"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4039972</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4039972</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4039972030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063450523/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Strangers]]></title><description><![CDATA["Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. It will become a Black classic."-- Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road"Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book. Compelling and imaginatively expansive, this is something very special--creative nonfiction that inspires, stirs and challenges."--Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. A richly imaginative, powerfully empathetic, and intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men that is also a moving meditation on race, estrangement, and the search for home.In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger, outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien; one who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in his own right, but the representative of a type.What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? What happens beneath the mask--what is the cost to the mind and body, to one's relationships and one's sense of self? Searching for answers, Ekow Eshun channels the voices of five very different individuals. Each man a renowned trailblazer in his field. Each man haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each man a stranger in his own world: Ira Aldridge, nineteenth century British actor and playwright; Matthew Henson, the first Black man to reach the North Pole; Frantz Fanon, French-Martinican psychiatrist and political philosopher; Malcolm X, civil rights activist and leader; Justin Fashanu, Britain's first openly gay professional footballer.Telling their stories, Eshun pushes the boundaries of genre to capture them in all their complexity, interweaving biography, fiction, historical record, and memoir, sharing his own experiences living as a Black Briton in the art world. The Strangers illuminates both the hostility and the beauty each man encountered in the world, positioning them all within a wider landscape of Black art, culture, history, and politics throughout the diaspora.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4073851</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4073851</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4073851030</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063450547/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Strangers]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger, outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien; one who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in his own right, but the representative of a type. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? What happens beneath the mask--what is the cost to the mind and body, to one's relationships and one's sense of self? Searching for answers, Ekow Eshun channels the voices of five very different individuals. Each man a renowned trailblazer in his field. Each man haunted by a sense of isolation and exile. Each man a stranger in his own world: Ira Aldridge, nineteenth century British actor and playwright; Matthew Henson, the first Black man to reach the North Pole; Frantz Fanon, French-Martinican psychiatrist and political philosopher; Malcolm X, civil rights activist and leader; Justin Fashanu, Britain's first openly gay professional footballer. Telling their stories, Eshun pushes the boundaries of genre to capture them in all their complexity, interweaving biography, fiction, historical record, and memoir, sharing his own experiences living as a Black Briton in the art world. The Strangers illuminates both the hostility and the beauty each man encountered in the world, positioning them all within a wider landscape of Black art, culture, history, and politics throughout the diaspora"-- ǂc Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4073981</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4073981</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4073981030</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063450554/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Black Fantastic]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the Black Fantastic' assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. It brings to life the forces that shape Afrofuturism - the cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday of Black experience - and beyond, looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity - based as they are on the historical subjugation of people of colour - the book explores how Black artists are drawing inspiration from African-originated myth, knowledge systems and spiritual practices to confound the Western dichotomy between the real and unreal, the natural and the supernatural. With 250 illustrations spanning the spheres of photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, literature and architecture, this book reaches across time, space and art form, drawing together everything from works by leading visual artists such as Kara Walker, Chris Ofili and Lina Iris Viktor to groundbreaking films like Black Panther and Get Out and the radical politics of pan-Africanism.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3815416</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3815416</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3815416030</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780262372145/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Gold of the Sun]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memoir recalls the author's journey to Ghana in search of his roots, reflecting on the physical, historical, and emotional aspects of his odyssey; his racially charged youth; and long-hidden secrets about his heritage.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2694428</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2694428</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2694428030</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307425010/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Gold of the Sun]]></title><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2369537</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2369537</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eshun, Ekow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2369537030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375424182/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Time Is Always Now]]></title><description><![CDATA["'The Time is Always Now' assembles contemporary African diasporic artists working in the UK and US whose practice foregrounds the Black figure. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, this publication explores and celebrates contemporary Black artists internationally who work within Black figuration. This visual book examines contemporary figurative artworks against a backdrop of heightened cultural visibility. Within this context, its collected paintings, drawings and sculptures take on a dual role as the accomplished work of individual artists and as a collective assertion of Black presence" -- page [4] of cover.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3968675</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3968675</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3968675030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Artists Reframe the Black Figure</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781855145580/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[If It Don't Exist, Build It]]></title><description><![CDATA[If It Don't Exist, Build It addresses all of Larry Achiampong's work over the course of his career in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, and performance. It explores the broader themes and ideas that have informed his artistic practice and shaped the creation of his most ambitious projects, including the multi-disciplinary Relic Traveller series. Features an extended interview with the artist.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4013824</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C4013824</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4013824030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Larry Achiampong</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781849768498/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reframing the Black Figure]]></title><description><![CDATA['Reframing the Black Figure' showcases more than 20 Black figurative artists working in the UK and US today. This book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting a selection of key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. It is illustrated with artworks and visual details, alongside short biographies for all featured artists.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3968673</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3968673</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3968673030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Introduction to Contemporary Black Figuration</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781855145481/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linda McCartney]]></title><description><![CDATA["Following her best-selling TASCHEN monograph Life in Photographs, discover a more intimate and highly personal side of Linda McCartney's photographic work in The Polaroid Diaries. The collection focuses on McCartney's distinctive way of seeing the world and her family, through charming and quirky portraits of Paul McCartney and the couple's four children. We see them pulling faces and in matching pajamas. We see James pouring water on himself, and Mary and Stella playing dress-up. There's dancing, eating, horse riding, and countless moments of everyday life on their farm in Southern England. As Paul says in the introduction: "She would just see things. Many of her photos, it's just that one click. You've got to recognise when a great photo is happening in front of you. And then you've got to snap it at exactly the right moment... And she did that so many times that it always impressed me." The Polaroid Diaries curates more than 200 of these "right" moments from the early 1970s until the mid-1990s, along with a foreword by Chrissie Hynde and an essay by art critic Ekow Eshun. The book also features luminous landscapes across Scotland and Arizona, as well as the odd celebrity, as the likes of Steve McQueen and Adam Ant wander into the frame. Other pictures attest to her love of animals, with compassionate images of cats, lambs, horses, and hens. It's a pre-Instagram glimpse into the life of an extraordinary family, a celebration of Linda's legacy as a fiercely committed artist and of the instant magic of Polaroid film."--Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3488776</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3488776</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McCartney, Linda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3488776030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Polaroid Diaries</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9783836558112/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>