中文简介：

这是一项关于黑人具象艺术的重要新研究，涵盖了从20世纪初到现在的100年。

为配合开普敦Zeitz MOCAA当代艺术博物馆的大型展览而出版，本书通过肖像画和具象画对黑人的自我表现进行了全面探索，从泛非洲和侨居地的角度颂扬了黑人的主体性和黑人的意识。

本书以具象绘画为重点，赞扬了黑人艺术家在20世纪初至今的100年间如何想象、定位、纪念和宣扬非洲和非洲侨居地的经验。本书展示了整个20世纪和21世纪初的几代艺术家是如何批判性地参与黑人和非洲人的多重概念的。

过去十年里，黑人艺术家的具象绘画在当代艺术领域上升到了一个新的突出地位。这本及时的、具有启示意义的出版物和展览将强调艺术家以多种方式对泛非主义、民权运动、非洲解放和独立运动、反种族隔离和黑人意识动员、非殖民化和黑人的命也是命等主题的批评性讨论做出贡献。

英文简介：

A major new study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early 20th century to now.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, this book presents a comprehensive exploration of Black self representation through portraiture and figuration, celebrating Black subjectivity and Black consciousness from Pan-African and Pan-Diasporic perspectives.

With a primary focus on representational painting, When We See Us celebrates how artists from Africa and the African diaspora have imagined, positioned, memorialized and asserted African and African diasporic experiences during a 100-year period spanning from the early 20th century to the present. The publication demonstrates how generations of artists throughout the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st have critically engaged with multiple notions of Blackness and Africanity.

Figurative painting by Black artists has risen to a new prominence in the field of contemporary art over the last decade. This timely and revelatory publication and exhibition will highlight the many ways in which artists have contributed to the critical discourse on topics such as Pan-Africanism, the Civil Rights Movement, African Liberation and Independence movements, the Anti-Apartheid and Black Consciousness mobilisations, Decoloniality and Black Lives Matter.