Stick to the skin : African American and Black British art, 1965-2015 / Celeste-Marie Bernier.

"The first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty twentieth- and twenty-first-century painters, photographers, sculptors, mixed-media assemblage, installation, video, and performance a...

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Main Author: Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
African American artists > 20th century.
African American artists > 21st century.
Artists, Black > Great Britain > 20th century.
Artists, Black > Great Britain > 21st century.
African American art > Themes, motives > History.
Art, Black > Great Britain > Themes, motives > History.
African American artists.
Artists, Black.
Great Britain.
20.21.
20.10.
1900-2099
Physical Description:xx, 318 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Lubaina Himid
  • Preface: "We will be/who we want/where we want/with whom we want"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "Inside the invisible" : African American and Black British artists and art-making traditions
  • "Do something with it" : the search for a new critical language in African American and Black British art
  • "I'm always ready to die" : memorializing slavery and narrativizing freedom: Betye Saar, Lubaina Himid, Benny Andrews, Tam Joseph
  • "Lifting, hanging, burning" : defiance, dissidence, and to destroy is to create: Noah Purifoy, Rasheed Araeen, Juginder Lamba, Melvin Edwards
  • "Branded, raped, beaten" : acts and arts of bearing witness: Maud Sulter, Carrie Mae Weems, Marlene Smith
  • "How to paint suffering" : anti-portraiture, anti-product, and anti-painting: Frank Bowling, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chris Ofili
  • "Enter at your own risk" : artist-as-trickster-as-prophet-as-historian-as-witness-as-freedom-fighter-as-artist: Donald Rodney, Keith Piper, Thornton Dial, Kara Walker
  • "Buried, hidden and disguised" : "storying" in a state of shock: Faith Ringgold, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson
  • "A freak in the blizzard of the white man's gaze" : black absent presences and present absences: Eddie Chambers, Ingrid Pollard, Gavin Jantjes, Joy Gregory
  • An "indelible mark"? : autobiographies, archives, and amnesia: Sutapa Biswas, Chila Kumari Burman, Vanley Burke, Roshini Kempadoo
  • "I was branded" : spectacularized histories, serial narratives, and illicit iconographies: Steve McQueen, Hew Locke, Godfried Donkor, Hank Willis Thomas
  • "Power to the powerless" : tracing black lives in protest portraits, history paintings, and radical installations: Barbara Walker, Kimathi Donkor, Mary Evans, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
  • "Hurting to death" : struggle, survival, and storytelling in salvaged objects, paint, beads, and steel: Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Sokari Douglas Camp, Joyce J. Scott
  • Conclusion: "Survivors of the diasporic journey" : past, present, and future artists and art-making traditions: Deborah Willis, Gurminder Sikand, Mona Hatoum, Zarina Bhimji, Yinka Shonibare, Hurvin Anderson, Thomas J. Price, Larry Achiampong, Nicola Frimpong
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic note.