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Distributed Art Publishers - Afro - Atlantic Histories - Hardcover
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Description: A colossal panoramic much - needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro - Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro - Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa the Americas the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro - Atlantic territories their experiences creations worshiping and philosophy. The so - called Black Atlantic to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy is geography lacking precise borders a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations territories and cultures. The plural and polyphonic quality of hist rias is also of note; unlike the English histories the word in Portuguese carries a double meaning that encompasses both fiction and nonfiction personal political economic and cultural as well as mythological narratives. The book features more than 400 works from Africa the Americas and the Caribbean as well as Europe from the 16th to the 21st century. These are organized in eight thematic groupings: Maps and Margins; Emancipations; Everyday Lives; Rites and Rhythms; Routes and Trances; Portraits; Afro Atlantic Modernisms; Resistances and Activism. Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney Emma Amos Benny Andrews Emanoel Araujo Maria Auxiliadora Romare Bearden John Biggers Paul C zanne Victoria Santa Cruz Beauford Delaney Aaron Douglas Melvin Edwards Ibrahim El - Salahi Ben Enwonwu Ellen Gallagher Theodore G ricault Barkley Hendricks William Henry Jones Lo's Mailou Jones Titus Kaphar Wifredo Lam Norman Lewis Ibrahim Mahama Edna Manley Archibald Motley Abdias Nascimento Gilberto de la Nuez Toyin Ojih Odutola Dalton Paula Rosana Paulino Howardena Pindell Heitor dos Prazeres Joshua Reynolds Faith Ringgold Gerard Sekoto Alma Thomas Hank Willis Thomas Rubem Valentim Kara Walker and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.
Title: Afro - Atlantic Histories
Brand: Distributed Art Publishers
Barcode: 9781636810027
Pages: 400 Pages, 400 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/7/2021
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: A colossal panoramic much - needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro - Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro - Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa the Americas the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro - Atlantic territories their experiences creations worshiping and philosophy. The so - called Black Atlantic to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy is geography lacking precise borders a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations territories and cultures. The plural and polyphonic quality of hist rias is also of note; unlike the English histories the word in Portuguese carries a double meaning that encompasses both fiction and nonfiction personal political economic and cultural as well as mythological narratives. The book features more than 400 works from Africa the Americas and the Caribbean as well as Europe from the 16th to the 21st century. These are organized in eight thematic groupings: Maps and Margins; Emancipations; Everyday Lives; Rites and Rhythms; Routes and Trances; Portraits; Afro Atlantic Modernisms; Resistances and Activism. Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney Emma Amos Benny Andrews Emanoel Araujo Maria Auxiliadora Romare Bearden John Biggers Paul C zanne Victoria Santa Cruz Beauford Delaney Aaron Douglas Melvin Edwards Ibrahim El - Salahi Ben Enwonwu Ellen Gallagher Theodore G ricault Barkley Hendricks William Henry Jones Lo's Mailou Jones Titus Kaphar Wifredo Lam Norman Lewis Ibrahim Mahama Edna Manley Archibald Motley Abdias Nascimento Gilberto de la Nuez Toyin Ojih Odutola Dalton Paula Rosana Paulino Howardena Pindell Heitor dos Prazeres Joshua Reynolds Faith Ringgold Gerard Sekoto Alma Thomas Hank Willis Thomas Rubem Valentim Kara Walker and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.
Title: Afro - Atlantic Histories
Brand: Distributed Art Publishers
Barcode: 9781636810027
Pages: 400 Pages, 400 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/7/2021
Category: Black & Asian Studies
