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Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue—Kathleen Collins, André Leon Talley, Richmond Barthé, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Monáe, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits and creative kin. For a Black, queer person so often dislocated from time and place, pleasure becomes an act of resistance—a grounding in the now. This Elegance is a love song—an offering to Black artistry, a tribute to visionary lives, and a testament to the power of beauty in even our most precarious moments.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Lyrik, Dramatik

• Full title: This Elegance
• Author: AUSTIN DERRICK
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 85
• EAN: 9781960145949
• ISBN: 1960145940
• ID: 49298933
• Publisher: Boa Ed
• Weight: 181 g
• Date of publishing: 05. May 2026

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