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"This book takes a diverse selection of prints and posters by artists from Africa and the African diaspora, and explores their role as a medium for social and political commentary, and as graphic expressions of personal identity, history and memory."--Back cover. This book explores prints from Africa and the African diaspora since 1960. As an accessible medium, print bridges the space between fine and commercial art as a vehicle for expression and carries with it a tradition of satire and protest, both social and political. Above all, prints are a means of communication and cultural exchange and, in the context of Africa and the African diaspora, these qualities have had a particular resonance. This book presents and interprets a variety of visual images from the V & A collections in terms of their political and social context, while also addressing their identity as art and design. It includes prints by Uzo Egonu, Carrie Mae Weems, and Chris Ofili, among others, as well as work with an overt political purpose, such as posters attacking the Apartheid policies of South Africa, and material produced by American Black Power organizations such as the Black Panthers.
Victoria and Albert museum --- Prints --- African diaspora in art
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"In this book of textual and cultural studies, Myriam J. A. Chancy focuses on the tropes of transnationalism, testimony and transmission within African diasporic texts. Not a work simply concerned with "racial rehabilitation" or "inclusion" within the dominant discourses of North America and Western Europe, it intends to serve as an intervention in race, Caribbean, African diasporic, and cultural studies by providing a radically new model for a culturally imbedded reading practice of contemporary works by African and African diasporic artists. Its purpose is to reveal the contributions to ontology that such artists deploy. In developing this approach, Chancy revisits the concept of "interpretive communities" from a distinctively African diasporic point of view. She uses concepts derived from contemporary philosophical approaches to subjectivity that revise-and mostly discard-Hegelian principles in order to assert less Eurocentric approaches. Building from these, she develops her neologism autochthonomy (aw-tok-ton-nuh-mee), which describes a practice of subjectivity and agency employed by African diasporic artists. Those artists chosen for this study bring together the experiences, movements, and knowledge of populations of African descent both on the continent and dispersed throughout Europe and the Americans in order to emphasize transnational interactions between African cultural producers and sites."--
African diaspora in art. --- African diaspora in literature. --- Black people --- African diaspora --- History. --- Africa --- Civilization.
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The 268-page publication expands the field of exhibition histories through a selection of pioneering exhibitions that have shaped Black art today. Emphasizing how Black artists have organized, networked and created space for their work, it is the first publication to focus exclusively on African diasporic art in the US and UK through the histories of Black art exhibitions. Through a range of contributions by artists, art historians, curators and theorists, this publication reflects on the sociopolitical circumstances that were essential to the emergence of a field of study and mode of exhibition that is constantly reshaping itself and challenging normative orders. Edited and introduced by Nana Adusei-Poku, with contributions by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Bridget R. Cooks, Abby R. Eron, Amber Esseiva, Cheryl Finley, Languid Hands (Imani Mason Jordan and Rabz Lansiquot), Julie L. McGee, Derek Conrad Murray, Serubiri Moses, Senam Okudzeto, Richard J. Powell, Jamaal B. Sheats, Howard Singerman, Marlene Smith with Claudette Johnson, Lucy Steeds and Brittany Webb.
Arts, Black --- African diaspora in art --- Artists, Black --- Black people --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions --- History --- Race identity
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"World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice within the field of African diaspora art history. The texts range from book chapters and catalogue essays, to shorter texts including an op-ed and an afterword. Chambers focuses on contemporary artists and their practices, from a range of international locations, who for the most part are identified with the African diaspora. The book will be a valuable and important contribution to the emerging discipline of black British art history in particular, as well as the broader field of African diaspora studies. None of the texts brought together are available online and none of them, until now, have been available outside of the original publication in which they first appeared. The volume contains several substantive new pieces of writing, one of which reflects on the patronage of the Greater London Council (GLC) extended to a number of Black artists in 1980s London. Another text considers the art world 'fetishisation' of the 1980s as the latest manifestation of a field reluctant to accept the majority of Black British artists as valid individual practitioners in their own right. Another new text introduces readers to the little-known record sleeve and book jacket illustrations of Charles White, the American artist who was the subject of a major retrospective in 2018 at major galleries across the US - Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The other new text re-examines the 'map paintings' of Frank Bowling, the Guyana-born artist who was the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain. Chambers provides a compelling commentary on work by a number of important artists, written at various stages of their careers. Together, the range of texts in World is Africa amount to a convincing and engaging overview of rarely-considered narratives relating to artists of the Africa diaspora. As such, the book will be a valuable and important contribution to the emerging discipline of black British art history in particular, as well as the broader field of African diaspora studies and African diaspora art history"--
African diaspora in art. --- Artists, Black --- Artists, Black. --- Black art --- Racism and the arts. --- History
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Inside the Invisible provides the first examination of the work of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Professor Lubaina Himid CBE. This comprehensive volume breaks new ground by theorizing her development of an alternative visual and textual language within which to do justice to the hidden histories and untold stories of Black women, children, and men bought and sold into transatlantic slavery. For Himid, the act of forgetting within official sites of memory is indivisible from the art of remembering within an African diasporic art historical tradition. She interrogates the widespread distortion and even wholesale erasure of Black bodies and souls subjected to dehumanizing stereotypes and grotesque caricatures within western imaginaries and dominant iconographic traditions over the centuries. Creating bodies of work in which she comes to grips with the physical and psychological realities of iconic and anonymous African diasporic individuals as living breathing human beings rather than as objectified types, she bears witness not only to tragedy but to triumph. A self-appointed researcher, historian, and storyteller as well as an artist, she succeeds in seeing "inside the invisible" regarding untold narratives of Black agency and artistry by mining national archives, listening to oral stories, acknowledging art-making traditions, and revisiting autobiographical testimonies.
Slavery in art --- African diaspora in art --- kunst --- feminisme --- 7.01 --- 7.03 --- 7.071 HIMID --- 75.071 HIMID --- racisme --- gender studies --- slavernij --- Afrika --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- postkolonialisme --- kolonialisme --- Groot-Brittannië --- kunst en politiek --- politiek --- Himid, Lubaina, --- Slavery in art. --- African diaspora in art. --- visualising --- black history --- contemporary --- art
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Migrating the Black Body" explores how visual media - from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels -has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black images? How is blackness forged and remade through diasporic visual encounters and reimagined through revisitations with the past? And how do visual technologies structure the way we see African subjects and subjectivity? This volume brings together an international group of scholars and artists who explore these questions in visual culture for the historical and contemporary African diaspora. Examining subjects as wide-ranging as the appearance of blackamoors in Russian and Swedish imperialist paintings, the appropriation of African and African American liberation images for Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and the role of YouTube videos in establishing connections between Ghana and its international diaspora, these essays investigate routes of migration, both voluntary and forced, stretching across space, place, and time.
African diaspora in art. --- Art. --- Blacks in mass media. --- Mass media --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Blacks and mass media. --- Blacks in mass media --- Black people in mass media. --- Black people and mass media. --- Art, Primitive
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Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.
Art --- Art, Kongo --- Performing arts --- Kongo (African people) --- African American art --- African diaspora in art. --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:316.7C200 --- C3 --- etnologie --- kunstwetenschap --- Congo [historische term land Congo -CG] --- KADOC - Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving (1977-) --- Bakongo (African people) --- Bakongo (African tribe) --- Cabinda (African people) --- Congo (African people) --- Fjort (African people) --- Frote (African people) --- Ikeleve (African people) --- Kakongo (African people) --- Kileta (African people) --- Koongo (African people) --- Nkongo (African people) --- Wacongomani (African people) --- Show business --- Kongo art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- African influences. --- Influence. --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Sociologie van de cultuuruitingen: algemeen --- Kunst en cultuur --- African [general, continental cultures] --- African influences --- African diaspora in art --- Arts --- Performance art --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Aesthetics --- Influence --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Congo --- Art, Primitive
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Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
African diaspora in art. --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Cultural fusion and the arts. --- Goddesses in art. --- Mother goddesses. --- Orishas in art. --- Sex in art. --- Yemaja (Yoruba deity) --- LaSiren (Yoruba deity) --- Lemanjá (Yoruba deity) --- Yemayá (Yoruba deity) --- Yemoja (Yoruba deity) --- Gods, Yoruba --- Mother goddesses --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Orixás in art --- Goddesses --- Arts and cultural fusion --- Hybridity (Social sciences) and the arts --- Arts --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Cults --- Afro-Caribbean religions.
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"Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories—their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures. The plural and polyphonic quality of “histórias” is also of note; unlike the English “histories,” the word in Portuguese carries a double meaning that encompasses both fiction and nonfiction, personal, political, economic and cultural, as well as mythological narratives. Featuring works from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as Europe, the publication is organized in eight thematic groupings: Maps and Margins; Emancipations; Everyday Lives; Rites and Rhythms; Routes and Trances; Portraits; Afro Atlantic Modernisms; Resistances and Activism."--
kunst --- kunstgeschiedenis --- afro-amerikaanse kunst --- kolonialisme --- postkolonialisme --- slavernij --- activisme --- schilderkunst --- beeldhouwkunst --- fotografie --- performances --- performance art --- portret --- portretschilderkunst --- portretfotografie --- 7.03 --- 7.041 --- Black people in art --- African diaspora in art --- Art, Black --- Slavery in art --- Slave trade in art --- Portrait photography --- Photography, Artistic --- Black art --- Negro art --- Fine arts --- The arts --- Ethnic studies --- Travel & holiday --- Cultural, ethnic & media studies --- History of art --- Art --- History of civilization --- African diaspora --- America --- cultuurgeschiedenis
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The purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and analyse the tangled skeins undergirding visual representations of transatlantic slavery across the Black diaspora. Living and working on both sides of the Atlantic, as these scholars, curators and practitioners demonstrate, African diasporic artists adopt radical and revisionist practices by which to confront the difficult aesthetic and political realities surrounding the social and cultural legacies let alone national and mythical memories of Transatlantic Slavery and the international Slave Trade. Adopting a comparative perspective, this book investigates the diverse body of works produced by black artists as these contributors come to grips with the ways in which their neglected and repeatedly unexamined similarities and differences bear witness to the existence of an African diasporic visual arts tradition. As in-depth investigations into the diverse resistance strategies at work within these artists' vast bodies of work testify, theirs is an ongoing fight for the right to art for art's sake as they challenge mainstream tendencies towards examining their works solely for their sociological and political dimensions. This book adopts a cross- cultural perspective to draw together artists, curators, academics, and public researchers in order to provide an interdisciplinary examination into the eclectic and experimental oeuvre produced by black artists working within the United States, the United Kingdom and across the African diaspora. The overall aim of this book is to re-examine complex yet under-researched theoretical paradigms vis-à-vis the patterns of influence and cross-cultural exchange across both America and a black diasporic visual arts tradition, a vastly neglected field of study.
Slavery in art. --- African diaspora in art. --- Slave trade in art. --- African American art. --- Art, Caribbean. --- Art, African. --- Art, Black --- Black art --- Negro art --- African art --- Art, Sub-Saharan African --- Sub-Saharan African art --- Caribbean art --- Afro-American art --- Art, African American --- Ethnic art --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales
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