Guest Speaker Eddie Chambers: Black Artists and the Fetishization of the 1980s

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Eddie Chambers is the holder of the David Bruton and Junior Centennial Professorship in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many publications, most recently World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art (Bloomsbury, 2021). He also edited the 2019 Routledge Companion to African American Art History and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal (College Art Association).

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