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Visualising Slavery - Art Across the African Diaspora (Paperback)
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Visualising Slavery - Art Across the African Diaspora (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 9
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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-a-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.
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