Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction Speculative Light 1
6. Part I Circuits of Selfhood
7. One Jimmy and Beauford 37
8. Two The Mentor 50
9. Three “You Pay for Your Life with Your Life” 53
10. Four Beauford Delaney’s Black Queer Fatherhood 66
11. Part II Synesthesia and Arts in Dialogue
12. Five Blue(s) as Cymbal 77
13. Six Baldwin and Delaney Tell the Story Using Yellows and the Blues 98
14. Seven Chiaroscuro, Delaney’s Aesthetic Vision, and Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” 119
15. Eight Yellow Light, Black Abstraction 131
16. Nine Baldwin/Delaney/Cazac 146
17. Ten Singed Innocence 160
18. Part III Visibility, Performance, Abstraction
19. Eleven Baldwin and Delaney 169
20. Twelve Shared Subjects 187
21. Thirteen Choosing Both 197
22. Fourteen “Architects of the Spirit” 208
23. Fifteen Feeling Modernist 224
24. Sixteen “The Giacometti Effect” 240
25. Part IV Continuing Influence
26. Seventeen Queer Radiance 249
27. Eighteen Baldwin, Delaney, and Black Artists’ Genealogical Legacies 266
28. Nineteen In a Speculative Light 278
29. Bibliography 289
30. Contributors 309
31. Index 315
32. Plate Credits 331