Visualising slavery art across the African diaspora
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 th...
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
10.03.2016
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| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Liverpool Studies in International Slavery |
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| ISBN: | 1781382670, 1781384290, 9781781384299, 9781781382677, 1800349211, 9781800349216 |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: CHAPTER ONE: Lost and Found at the Swap Meet: CHAPTER TWO: Preserves CHAPTER THREE: What Goes without Saying CHAPTER FOUR: Spectres in the Postcolonies: CHAPTER FIVE: Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation: CHAPTER SIX: The Chattel Record: CHAPTER SEVEN: Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions CHAPTER EIGHT: Uncle Tom and the Problem of ‘Soft’ Resistance to Slavery CHAPTER NINE: The After-Image: CHAPTER TEN: Siting the Circum-Atlantic: CHAPTER ELEVEN: Art and Caribbean Slavery: CHAPTER TWELVE: ‘The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth’: CHAPTER THIRTEEN: We Might Not Be Surprised: CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ‘X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony’: CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Reconfiguring African Trade Beads: Afterword: Notes on Contributors Index Colour Plates
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘Inside the Invisible’: African Diasporic Artists Visualise Transatlantic Slavery - Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin Part I Slavery and Memory in Contemporary African Diasporic Art 1. Lost and Found at the Swop-Meet: Betye Saar, the Everyday Object and the Work of Lubaina Himid - Lubaina Himid 2. Preserves - Debra Priestly 3. What Goes without Saying - Hank Willis Thomas 4. Spectres in the Postcolonies: Re-imagining Violence and Resistance - Roshini Kempadoo 5. Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation: A Personal Account - Keith Piper Part II Historical Iconography and Visualising Transatlantic Slavery 6. The Chattel Record: Visualising the Archive in Diasporan Art - Fionnghuala Sweeney 7. Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions - Alan Rice 8. Uncle Tom and the Problem of ‘Soft’ Resistance to Slavery - David Bindman 9. The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture - Zoe Trodd Part III African Diasporic Monuments and Memorialisation 10. Siting the Circum-Atlantic: Nelson in a Bottle in Trafalgar Square - Geoffrey Quilley 11. Art and Caribbean Slavery: Modern Visions of the 1763 Guyana Rebellion - Leon Wainwright 12. ‘The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth’: Richmond Barthé’s Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Hannah Durkin Part IV Contemporary Legacies in African Diasporic Art 13. We Might Not Be Surprised: Visualising Slavery and the Slave Ship in the Works of Charles Campbell and Mary Evans - Eddie Chambers 14. ‘X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony’: A ‘Lexicon of Liberation’ versus ‘My Slave History’ in the Paintings, Installations and Sketchbooks of Donald Rodney - Celeste-Marie Bernier 15. Reconfiguring African Trade Beads: The Most Beautiful, Bountiful and Marginalised Sculptural Legacy to have Survived the Middle Passage - Marcus Wood Afterword: Against the Grain: Contingency and Found Objects - Nathan Grant Notes on Contributors Index
- Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'Inside the Invisible' -- Part I Slavery and Memory in Contemporary African Diasporic Art -- Chapter One: Lost and Found at the Swap Meet -- Chapter Two: Preserves -- Chapter Three: What Goes without Saying -- Chapter Four: Spectres in the Postcolonies -- Chapter Five: Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation -- Part II Historical Iconography and Visualising Transatlantic Slavery -- Chapter Six: The Chattel Record Visualising the Archive in Diasporan Art -- Chapter Seven: Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions -- Chapter Eight: Uncle Tom and the Problem of 'Soft' Resistance to Slavery -- Chapter Nine: The After-Image Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture -- Part III African Diasporic Monuments and Memorialisation -- Chapter Ten: Siting the Circum-Atlantic Nelson in a Bottle in Trafalgar Square -- Chapter Eleven: Art and Caribbean Slavery -- Chapter Twelve: 'The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth' -- Part IV Contemporary Legacies in African Diasporic Art -- Chapter Thirteen: We Might Not Be Surprised -- Chapter Fourteen: 'X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony' -- Chapter Fifteen: Reconfiguring African Trade Beads -- Afterword: Against the Grain -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Image Plates