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The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain /

"The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016-19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s. Within the context of Thatcherism and a racist art estab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aikens, Nick (Author, Editor), Robles, Elizabeth Kristiana, 1985- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Germany : Sternberg Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Artists, Black > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Artists, Black > Great Britain > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Authors, Black > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Arts, British > 20th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Art and Design.
Artists, Black.
Authors, Black.
British > Intellectual life.
Great Britain.
1900-1999
Pictorial works.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nick Aikens, Elizabeth Robles
  • We Will Be / Susan pui san lok
  • A Complex Unity : Articulating the 1980s / Nick Aikens
  • The Urgency of the Now / Deborah Cherry
  • Encounters with Art History / Laura Castagnini, Alice Correia, Priyesh Mistry, Elizabeth Robles
  • Van Abbemuseum Exhibition/Images
  • Reframing Art History / Elizabeth Robles
  • Blk Art Group Research Project
  • All the Rage : For Oluwale and Destruction of the National Front / Sonia Boyce
  • Vanley Burke Archive
  • On Dreaming Rivers : The Possibilities of Becoming / Chandra Frank
  • Gavin Jantjesʼs A South African Colouring Book / Amna Malik
  • Nottingham Contemporary Exhibition/Images
  • The Place Is Here, the Time Is Now : Lubaina Himidʼs Toussaint LʼOuverture / Dorothy Price
  • The Archive / Nick Aikens, June Givanni, Sarnia Malik, Marlene Smith
  • June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive
  • Bearing Witness / Sunil Gupta, Gail Lewis, Michelle Williams Gamaker
  • Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Exhibition/Images
  • Mona Hatoumʼs Roadworks and Measures of Distance / Leon Wainwright
  • Said Adrusʼs Zeitgeist, Chila Kumari Burmanʼs Convenience Not Love and Pratibha Parmarʼs Sari Red / Ashwani Sharma
  • South London Gallery Exhibition/Images
  • Making Histories Visible
  • Processes of Identification / Evan Ifekoya, Claudette Johnson, Raisa Kabir, Raju Rage, Rehana Zaman
  • Contributors
  • Exhibition Checklists and Image Credits
  • Acknowledgements
  • Colophon
  • Selected Archives.