Full Description
This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world. It is a bold and broad reframing of this neglected branch of art history, challenging dominant presumptions about the field.
Diaspora pertains to the global scattering or dispersal of, in this instance, African peoples, as well as their patterns of movement from the mid twentieth century onwards. Chapters in this book emphasize the importance of cross-fertilization, interconnectedness, and intersectionality in the framing of African Diaspora art history. The book stresses the complexities of artists born within, or living and working within, the African continent, alongside the complexities of Africa-born artists who have migrated to other parts of the world. The group of international contributors emphasizes and accentuates the interplay between, for example, Caribbean art and African Diaspora art, or Latin American art and African Diaspora art, or Black British art and African Diaspora art.
The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in art history, the various branches of African studies, African American studies, African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and Latin American studies.
Contents
Introduction SECTION I Routes and Roots of Global African Diaspora Art History 1. Stuart Hall and the Framing of Diaspora 2. Towards a History of LGBTQ+ Contemporary African Art 3. The Diasporic Dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance 4. To Risk the Sovereignty of Our Own Stories 5. Édouard Glissant and the Framing of Diaspora 6. HERE and HERE: ÀSÌKÒ and Beyond 7. South Africa: Destination and Point of Origin 8. From Post-Black to the Afropolitan: The Studio Museum's 'F-Shows' and Discourses on Black Art 9. African and Afrodescendant Art Production in Latin America: Research Challenges and Possibilities 10. The Global Africa Project: Diasporic Connections, Explorations, and Interactions SECTION II Routes and Roots of African Diaspora Art History in Europe 11. "[T]heir own kind of light": Black diasporic Consciousness in the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966-1972) 12. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Italy 13. Indivisible or Invisible: Contemporary Artists of African Descent and French Multiculturalism 14. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Germany 15. A Short History of Artists of African-descent in Scandinavia 16. Contemporary African Art and Artists in Belgium 17. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Scotland 18. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Spain 19. Transforming the Facade: Black American Artists at the US Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, 1930-2022 20. East African, South Asian, British Artists SECTION III Hemispheric Dimensions of African Diaspora Art History 21. Cartographies of Kinship in the Caribbean Festival of Arts 22. Where Caribbean Art Ends and Latin American Art Begins 23. Art Biennales in Africa and the Making of African Diaspora Art History: Perspectives from the Dak'Art Biennale 24. Visualizing Historical and Contemporary African Diasporas: A Perspective from the Dakar Biennial 25. Drawing Cuba into African Diaspora Art History 26. Thinking Together: The Maghreb and African Diaspora Art History 27. Deconstructing the Archival Impulse in Contemporary Maghrebi Diasporic Praxis 28. Absented Presence: Canadian Dimensions of African Diasporic Art History 29. Afro-Brazilian Art in Transit: Abdias do Nascimento's Visual-Arts Work from Rio de Janeiro to New York City 30. Curating African/Black Atlantic Art: Dimensions in Black Art and Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent SECTION IV African Diaspora Art History: Scholars at Work: Art Historians, Museum & Gallery Curators, Pedagogy, and Archives 31. Claiming space: the Caribbean's (counter-)Curatorial Interventions 32. X as Intersection: AfroLatinX Art 33. Celebrations of Diaspora: The work of FESTAC '77 34. Went Looking for Africa": Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, and
Artistic Travels in Africa 35. Un-doing Belonging: Mobilising African Diaspora Art in the Art History Classroom 36. Being Seen: An Art History of the Blackness of Technology 37. Image Made Flesh: Black Representation, Material Archives and Contemporary Desire 38. Edson Chagas' Photographic Realism 39. Glitter and Grit: Michèle Pearson Clarke's Black Queer Unreason 40. Pedagogical Challenges, Pedagogical Approaches - Contemporary Art from Africa and its Diaspora: the analytical tools Postscript: Diaspora Writ Large: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Julie Mehretu, and Wangechi Mutu
