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Afro-Atlantic histories / edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo ; texts by Adriano Pedrosa, Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Tomás Toledo, Vivian A. Crockett.

LIBRA N8217.B535 A37 2021
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Pedrosa, Adriano, editor, contributor.
Toledo, Tomás, editor, contributor.
Heráclito, Ayrson, contributor.
Willis, Deborah, 1948- contributor.
Menezes, Hélio, contributor.
Fletcher, Kanitra, contributor.
Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz, contributor.
Crockett, Vivian, contributor.
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.
Instituto Tomie Ohtake.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Dallas Museum of Art.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African diaspora in art--Exhibitions.
African diaspora in art.
Art, Black--Exhibitions.
Art, Black.
Slavery in art--Exhibitions.
Slavery in art.
Slave trade in art--Exhibitions.
Slave trade in art.
Portrait photography--Exhibitions.
Portrait photography.
Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY, United States : DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. ; São Paulo, SP, Brazil : MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2021.
Summary:
"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, worshipping, 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 "histórias" 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.
Contents:
Afro-Atlantic histories at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Afro-Atlantic histories at Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Afro-Atlantic histories at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Editorial note
History, histórias / Adriano Pedrosa
Slave markets: when resignation is a form of resistance / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Visualizing slavery: image and text / Deborah Willis
Occupy self-portraiture / Kanitra Fletcher
A place to call home: reflections on transnational translations / Vivian A. Crockett
1. Maps and margins
2. Emancipations
3. Everyday lives
4. Rites and rhythms
5. Portraits
6. Resistances and activisms
7. Routes and trances: Africas, Jamaica, Bahia
8. Afro-Atlantic modernisms
Selected bibliography.
Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name co-organized by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2021-January 2022; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April-July 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 2022-April 2023; Dallas Museum of Art, October 2023-January 2024.
Selected artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Sidney Amaral, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Emanoel Araujo, Maria Auxiliadora, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian, Edu Carvalho, Elizabeth Catlett, Paul Cézanne, Henry Chamberlain, J. Cunha, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Melvin Edwards, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Théodore Géricault, Barkley L. Hendricks, Clementine Hunter, William Henry Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Titus Kaphar, Seydou Keïta, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Ibrahim Mahama, Edna Manley, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Abdias Nascimento, Paulo Nazareth, Gilberto de la Nuez, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Joe Overstreet, Dalton Paula, Rosana Paulino, Howardena Pindell, Heitor dos Prazeres, Joshua Reynolds, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Victoria Santa Cruz, Gerard Sekoto, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Rubem Valentim, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
"This publication is a more concise development or unfolding of the original 2018 volume [Histórias afro-atlânticas] published by MASP and the Instituto [Tomie Ohtake] ... "--Editorial note.
"Afro-Atlantic Histories" was originally presented in a much larger scale at the MASP and at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo, in 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1636810020
9781636810027
OCLC:
1256541466

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