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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Chambers, Eddie (1960-....)
Titre(s) : World is Africa [Texte imprimé] : writings on diaspora art / Eddie Chambers
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, 2021
Description matérielle : xxx, 303 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Art noir -- Grande-Bretagne
Artistes africains -- Grande-Bretagne
Indice(s) Dewey :
704.039 6041 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Étude en relation avec les Africains - Îles Britanniques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350140325. - ISBN 1350140325. - ISBN 9781350170131. - ISBN 1350170135. -
ISBN 9781350140332 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350140349 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466887345
Notice n° :
FRBNF46688734
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / Patricia Bickers ; The harmful consequences of Postblack ; Africa 05
: polemic ; Dead artists' society ; Black artists and the fetishisation of the 1980s
; Black British artists and problems of systemic invisibility and eradication : creating
exhibition histories of that which is not there ; Framing Black art ; 'Handsworth
songs' and the archival image 10 Black British and other African diaspora artists
visualising slavery ; 2000's got to be Black ; Next we change Earth ; Keith Piper,
Donald Rodney and the artists' response to the archive ; Black British photography
; Sokari Douglas Camp CBE ; William Kentridge : the main complaint ; Hurvin Anderson
: double consciousness ; Jonathan Jones : untitled (the tyranny of distance) ; Vanley
Burke : an Inglan story, an Inglan history ; Helen Wilson : painting for a brighter
future ; Barbara Walker : private face ; Barbara Walker : it's a bit much ; Reviewpiece
: Ajamu & Sunil Gupta ; Pat Ward Williams : isolated incidents ; Donald Rodney :
three songs on pain light & time ; Ben Jones : in the spirit, in the flesh ; Frank
Bowling and the enigma of Guyana ; Charles White's 10- and 12- inch vinyl messages
; Hew Locke's depictions of royalty ; Independence and cultural nationalism in Caribbean
art ; Black artists and the Greater London Council ; Art and Society, Jonathan Greenland
interview with Eddie Chambers ; Contemporary art or contemporary African art? : the
inevitable death of the latter ; Richard Hylton, the nature of the beast : cultural
diversity and the visual arts sector : a study of policies, initiatives and attitudes
1976-2006 : afterword ; Elvan Zabunyan, Black is a color (a history of African American
art) : book review ; "Black my story, (Museum de Paviljoens, Netherlands, 2003) :
book review ; Criticize : press responses to Black art an' done and the pan-Afrikan
connection exhibitions ; Àsìkò goes outernational ; Jamaica goes outernational.
