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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.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : São Paulo : DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK | D.A.P., Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2021.Description: 389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781636810027
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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 -- Maps and margins -- Emancipations -- Everyday lives -- Rites and rhythms -- Portraits -- Resistances and activisms -- Routes and trances : Africas, Jamaica, Bahia -- Afro-Atlantic modernisms -- Selected bibliography.
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. 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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Gold 704.0396 PED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12465

Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- Maps and margins -- Emancipations -- Everyday lives -- Rites and rhythms -- Portraits -- Resistances and activisms -- Routes and trances : Africas, Jamaica, Bahia -- Afro-Atlantic modernisms -- Selected bibliography.

"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. 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.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition co-organized by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; 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.