Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance / edited by Charmaine A. Nelson (Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohri, Aditi, author.

Crooks, Julie, author.

Kelebay, Alexandra, author.

Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- author.

Boone, Emilie, author.

Bowen, Deanna, author.

Duncan, Carol B. (Carol Bernadette), 1965- author.

Dionne-Petit, Mercelie, author.

Abraham, Christiana, author.

Johnson, Adrienne R., author.

Verrall, Krys, author.

Jim, Alice Ming Wai, 1970- author.

Fatona, Andrea, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Nelson, Charmaine, editor, author.

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists, Black--Canada--History.

Artists, Black.

Women artists, Black--Canada--History.

Women artists, Black.

Art--Canada--History.

Art.

Art, Canadian.

Black people in art.

Artists, Black--Canada--19th century.

Africans--Canada--History.

Africans.

Slave trade--Canada--History.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Canada--18th century.

Enslaved women--Canada--History.

Enslaved women.

Black people in art--Photography.

Blackface entertainers--Canada--History.

Blackface entertainers.

Minstrel shows--Canada--History.

Minstrel shows.

Women artists, Black--Canada--21st century.

McCarthy, George H.

McDonald, Edith H.

History.

Photography.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 382 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Concord, ON : Captus Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Towards an African Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance, is the first book to consoloidate the field of African Canadian Art History. In this book, Charmaine A. Nelson and her colleagues--a group of established and up-and-coming artists, scholars, and cultural critics--argue for an African Canadian Art History that can simultaneously examine the artistic contributions of black Canadian artists within their unique historical contexts, critique the colonial representation of black subjects by white artists, and contest the customary racial homogeneity of Canadian Art History. Challenging the traditional notions of artistic value, this groundbreaking book examines art, artists, and visual and material culture from the eighteenth century to the present, analyzing "high," "low," and popular art across various media, with a focus to offer a new perspective on Canadian Art History--an African Canadian Art History.

Contents:

Part 1: Memory, Nostalgia, and Spectacle

Chapter 1: "Just Imported and To Be Sold": Creolization and the Slave-Master Relationship in Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia / Aditi Ohri

Chapter 2: Exerting and Cultivating Selves: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Black Subject in Southern Ontario / Julie Crooks

Chapter 3: "History Could be Taught by Means of Dolls ... ": Race, Doll-Play, and the History of Black Female Slavery in Canada / Alexandra Kelebay

Chapter 4: "Come One, Come All": Blackface Minstrelsy as a Canadian Tradition and Early Form of Popular Culture / Cheryl Thompson

Part 2: Resistance and Cultural Preservation

Chapter 5: "The Canadian Inhabitants are Remarkably Fond of Dancing": Reading the African Musicians in George Heriot's 'Minuets of the Canadians' (1807) / Charmaine A. Nelson

Chapter 6: The Likeness of Fugivity: Transatlantic Considerations of a Canadian Photograph / Emilie Boone

Chapter 7: Invisible Empires / Deanna Bowen

Chapter 8: Spiritual Baptist Ritual Garments in Church and Community / Carol B. Duncan

Part 3: Institutional Practice

Chapter 9: From 'Portrait of a Negro Slave' to 'Portrait of a Haitian Woman': The Racial Politics of Renaming Art in Canadian Museum Practice / Charmaine A. Nelson

Chapter 10: Cricket in Montreal: Visualizing Race, Masculinity, and Community in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Canada / Mercelie Dionne-Petit

Chapter 11: Visualities of "Difference": De-Constructing Gendered "Third World" Subjects in Representations of Canadian International Aid / Christiana Abraham

Part 4: Historiography

Chapter 12: Authoring Belonging: Early African Canadian Fine Artists George H. McCarthy (1860-1906) and Edith H. McDonald (c. 1880-1954) / Adrienne R. Johnson

Chapter 13: Beyond Parochialism: Telling Tales about Black Activism and Conceptual Art / Krys Verrall

Chapter 14: Articulating Spaces of Representation: Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada / Alice Ming Wai Jim

Chapter 15: Claiming Space: The Development of Black Canadian Cultural Activism of the 1980s and 1990s / Andrea Fatona.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781553223658

1553223659

OCLC:

1076491545

Publisher Number:

99987683268