Black Artists in British Art : A History since The 1950s / Eddie Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Eddie, author.

Series:

International library of visual culture ; 10.

International library of visual culture ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists, Black--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Artists, Black.

Artists, Black--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Black art--Great Britain--20th century--History.

Black art.

Black art--Great Britain--21st century--History.

Blacks in art.

British art--20th century--History.

British art.

British art--21st century--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the middle of the twentieth century. Sometimes, these artists - with backgrounds in the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia - were regarded and embraced as British pratictioners of note and merit. At other times, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, they were not. In response, on occasion, Britain's black artists came together and made their own exhibitions or created their own gallery spaces. In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of Britain's black artists, from the 1950s onwards, including the contemporary art of Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare.--Publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: some problems with history and its treatment of black-British artists

The pioneering generation of Caribbean artists

Early contributions by South Asian artists

The significance of the 1970s

Uzo Egonu and contemporary African art in Britain

The earliest black-British practitioners

South Asian stories

The 'black art' generation and the 1980s

The rise and fall of the Black-Art Gallery

The emergence of black women artists: arguments and opinions

Sonia Boyce and other black women artists

Substantial sculpture: the work of Sokari Douglas Camp, Veronica Ryan, and Permindar Kaur

Black artists of the 1990s generation

The triumphant triumvirate: Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, and Steve McQueen

The new generation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780755603343

0755603346

9780857724090

0857724096

9780857736086

0857736086

OCLC:

1128159563