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Minor Black Figures
A Literary Fiction Novel by Brandon Taylor
Subgenres:
- LGBTQ+ Fiction,
- Art & Creativity,
- Black Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Art world stories simmering with questions of identity and ambition
- Late-night debates about God, sex, and creative purpose
- Characters investigating overlooked Black artists and their legacies
A bold novel about a black painter caught up in the currents of art, faith, and desire. New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work. After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he meets Keating, a former seminarian.
Over the long summer, as the two get to know each other, they talk and argue about God, sex, and art. Meanwhile, at his job working for an art restorer, Wyeth begins to investigate the life and career of a forgotten, minor black artist. His search yields potential answers to questions that Wyeth is only now beginning to ask about what it means to be a black artist making black art amid the mess and beauty of life itself.
Minor Black Figures is a vividly etched portrait, both sweeping and tender, of friendship, creativity, belief, and the deep connections among them.
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