Inside the invisible : memorialising slavery and freedom in the life and works of Lubaina Himid / Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, Hannah Durkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernier, Celeste-Marie.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, author.

Rice, Alan, author.

Durkin, Hannah, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 14.

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Himid, Lubaina, 1954-.

Himid, Lubaina.

Slavery in art.

African diaspora in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (colour).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Foreword by Marlene SmithIntroduction: Making Black Histories, Stories, and Memories VisibleI

'Gathering and Reusing' by Lubaina Himid Part 1: Visualising the 'Politics of Representation'Chapter 1: 'Humour, fury, celebration, and optimism': A Politics of Protest and Cut-Out Men (1981-85)Chapter 2: 'Rituals of reclaiming lost artefacts, refusing oppression and looking for ancestors' in Heroes and Heroines (1984)Chapter 3: 'They who document / paint the History hold the Power': Retelling, Reimagining and Recreating New Narratives of Black Heroism in Toussaint I (1988) and Toussaint II (2002)II

'Telling Invisible Stories' by Lubaina Himid Part 2: Resistance, Reclamation and Revolutionary History PaintingChapter 4: No more 'Silent Victims': Agency, Authority and Artistry in the 'Black Woman's Story' in Revenge (1992)Chapter 5: 'Lost hope, abandoned lives, decimated civilisations': Sites of 'Cultural Struggle' in Beach House (1995)Chapter 6: 'Safety and danger and how to tell the difference': Suffering, Struggle and Survival in Plan B (1999)III

'Return to the Operatic' by Lubaina Himid Part 3: Past, Present and Future Artistry, Activism and AgencyChapter 7: Imaging and Imagining 'Lost Lives of the Black Diaspora' in Venetian Maps (1997) Chapter 8: Reimaging and Reimagining an Absent-Presence in Cotton.com (2003)Chapter 9: 'The Slave Servant': Guerrilla Memorialisation and Multi-accented Performances in Naming the Money (2004)Chapter 10: 'Intervention, Mapping and Excavation': White Caricatures versus Black Dehumanisation in Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007)IV

'Painting over the British to reveal the British' by Lubaina Himid Part 4: Imagining 'the ghosts and the traces'Chapter 11: Tracing 'The living/ the dead/ the ancestors' in London and Paris Guidebooks (2009)Chapter 12: Mapping Space, Debating Place: Jelly Mould Pavilions (2010) and Official Sites and Sights of Slavery and MemoryChapter 13: 'The 'Ghost' of it all': Tragedy, Trauma and a 'People There and Not There' in Le Rodeur (2016)V

'Working on Paper' by Lubaina Himid 'It's All about Action': An Interview with Lubaina Himid by Hannah DurkinConclusion: 'Lives Depend on Accurate Histories'Bibliography.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Contains:

Himid, Lubaina, 1954- Works. Selections.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781789625035

1789625033

Publisher Number:

99987453495

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Restricted for use by site license.