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African Venice : a guide to art, culture and people / Paul Kaplan and Shaul Bassi ; foreword by Igiaba Scego ; afterword by Maaza Mengiste.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- author.
- Bassi, Shaul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--In art.
- Africa.
- Art--Italy--Venice.
- Art.
- Art, Italian--African influences.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, Italian--Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in Venetian art from the Middle Ages to the present, the afterlife of Shakespeare’s Othello, the painful local legacies of slavery and Italian colonialism, and the remarkable visibility of African and Afro-descendant artists at the Venice Biennale. These tours are enriched by more than twenty essays, poems, and reflections that celebrate, question, and reimagine Venice’s Black past and present. From premodern paintings and sculpture to contemporary artworks, African Venice will show you the city as you have never seen it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Africa in Venice The Past
- Chapter 2: Africa in Venice The Present
- Chapter 3: Between Two Worlds
- Chapter 4: Contemporary African Artin Venice
- Chapter 4: A Miracle in Venice
- Chapter 6: The Black Gondolier
- Chapter 7: Giuseppina Bakhita
- Chapter 8: African Routes of the Venetian Coffee Trade
- Chapter 9: Home Brew Preliminary Tasting Notes
- Chapter 10: A Bridge Over the Chasm of Indifference
- Chapter 11: Sarah's Blues
- Chapter 12: In the Ghetto
- Chapter 13: Death of the Last Venetian Mosquito
- Chapter 14: The Garden of Palm Trees
- Chapter 15: The Biennale
- Chapter 16: Beads of Venice
- Chapter 17: A Senegalese in Venice
- Chapter 18: The Rabbi
- Chapter 19: The Terraferma: Padua, Vicenza, and Verona
- Chapter 20: The Least of All Things
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kaplan, Paul H. D. (Paul Henry Daniel), 1952- African Venice
- ISBN:
- 9780271100005
- 9780271100012
- OCLC:
- 1521235201
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