Visualising slavery : art across the African diaspora /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Liverpool studies in international slavery ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 'Inside the Invisible": African Diasporic Artists Visualise Transatlantic Slavery / Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin
- pt. 1 Slavery and Memory in Contemporary African Diasporic Art. Lost and Found at the Swap Meet: Betye Saar and the Everyday Object / Lubaina Himid
- Preserves / Debra Priestly
- What Goes without Saying / Hank Willis Thomas
- Spectres in the Postcolonies: Reimagining Violence and Resistance / Roshini Kempadoo
- Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation: A Personal Account / Keith Piper
- pt. 2. Historical Iconography and Visualising Transatlantic Slavery. Chattel Record: Visualising the Archive in Diasporan Art / Fionnghuala Sweeney
- Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions / Alan Rice
- Uncle Tom and the Problem of `Soft' Resistance to Slavery / David Bindman
- After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture / Zoe Trodd
- pt. 3. African Diasporic Monuments and Memorialisation. Siting the Circum-Atlantic: Nelson in a Bottle in Trafalgar Square / Geoff Quilley
- Art and Caribbean Slavery: Modern Visions of the 1763 Guyana Rebellion / Leon Wainwright
- "The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth': Richmond Barthé's Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines / Hannah Durkin
- pt. 4. Contemporary Legacies in African Diasporic Art. We Might Not Be Surprised: Visualising Slavery and the Slave Ship in the Works of Charles Campbell and Mary Evans / Eddie Chambers
- `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
- 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.