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"A perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Riverhead hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "A perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity"-- A newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. It's challenging. Gallery shows displaying bad art. Pretentious artists jockeying for attention. The gossip and the backstabbing. While his part-time work for an art restorer is engaging, Wyeth suffers from artist's block with his painting and he is finding it increasingly difficult to spark his creativity. When he meets Keating, a white former seminarian who left the priesthood, Wyeth begins to reconsider how to observe the world, in the process facing questions about the conflicts between Black and white art, the white gaze on the Black body, and the compromises we make -- in art and in life. |
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| Physical Description: | 387 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593332368 0593332369 |
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