Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent

by Reynaldo Anderson (Editor), John Jennings (Editor), Stacey Robinson

Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent and its inspiration, the groundbreaking exhibition Unveiling Visions, applies a global lens and planetary vision to the black imagination and brings this context to a wide survey of contemporary works.

This book showcases illustrations, graphic design, literature, posters, and mixed-media digital and analog artworks along with insightful analysis by brilliant scholars and amazingly talented creatives. Cosmic Underground serves as a creative, experimental and educational motive force to analyze the growing corpus of work surrounding the nexus between politics and contemporary artistic production.

This project includes the areas of black cultural production situated within Afrofuturism, AstroBlackness, the EthnoGothic, Magical Realism, Sword and Soul and the AfroSurreal.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art

236 pages, Paperback

Published February 20, 2018

Reviews

[Solaris]

An interesting mix of essays, poems, and art! Will definitely give this a reread later.