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Minor Black Figures

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內容簡介 一部大膽的小說，講述一位黑人畫家在藝術、信仰與慾望的浪潮中掙扎紐約在炎熱與動盪中翻騰，畫家Wyeth發現自己在創作上陷入了僵局。在參加了一場由一群功利藝術家舉辦的展覽後，他轉赴西村的一間酒吧，遇見了前神學生Keating。整個夏天，兩人在相互了解中展開討論與爭辯——關於上帝、性與藝術。同時，在他擔任藝術修復助理的工作中，Wyeth開始研究一位被遺忘的、名氣不大的黑人藝術家的生平與創作歷程。他的探索，逐漸揭示了關於「作為黑人藝術家，在生活的混亂與美麗之中創作黑人藝術意味著什麼」的問題，而這些問題正是Wyeth此刻才開始真正追問的。正如 Brandon Taylor 在布克獎入圍作Real Life與暢銷作品The Late Americans中所展現的才華，他再次刻畫出一群鮮活人物——這次是在競爭激烈的藝術世界中工作與遊玩的面貌。 Minor Black Figures是一幅生動細膩的畫作：既宏大又溫柔，描繪了友情、創造力、信念，以及它們之間深刻的連結。From the Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author: a perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativityA 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.As he did so adeptly in Booker finalist Real Life and the bestselling The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings to life in Minor Black Figures a fascinating set of characters, this time in the competitive art world, and the lives they lead with each and on their own. Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of friendship, creativity, and the connections between them.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Brandon TaylorBrandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

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