Shades Of Black

by Bailey, David A.; Baucom, Ian; BOYCE, SONIA

• ISBN13: 9780822334095
• ISBN10: 0822334097
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

""Shades of Black" is a remarkable document of creative thinking and archival importance. The editors have brought to life a decade rich in artistic experimentation and collaboration, which will shape the vision of artists and thinkers across generations and geographies."--Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University

Table of Contents

Shades of Black: Assembling the 1980s	xi
David A. Bailey
Ian Baucom
Sonia Boyce
PART ONE texts
Assembling the 1980s: The Deluge---and After	1	(20)
Stuart Hall
The Success and Failure of the Black Arts Movement	21	(14)
Rasheed Araeen
Wait, Did I Miss Something? Some Personal Musings on the 1980s and Beyond	35	(6)
Keith Piper
Inside the Invisible: For/Getting Strategy	41	(8)
Lubaina Himid
Iconography after Identity	49	(10)
Kobena Mercer
A to Y (Entries for an Inventionry of Dented ``I''s)	59	(8)
susan pui san lok
On Becoming an Artist: Algerian, African, Arab, Muslim, French, and Black British? A Dialogue of Visibility	67	(10)
Zineb Sedira
Jawad Al-Nawab
CoRespondents	77	(12)
Yong Soon Min
Allan deSouza
Triangular Trades: Late-Twentieth-Century ``Black'' Art and Transatlantic Cultural Commerce	89	(14)
Judith Wilson
Collaborative Projects: Toward a More Inclusive Practice	103	(6)
Dawoud Bey
Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism	109	(6)
Stan Abe
Choices for Black Arts in Britain over Thirty Years	115	(8)
Naseem Khan
A Case of Mistaken Identity	123	(43)
Gilane Tawadros
Color Plates	133	(33)
PART TWO the conference
Conference Papers and Speakers	166	(1)
Dialogues	167	(32)
Jean Fisher
PART THREE time lines
Introduction	199	(11)
Adelaide Bannerman
Time Lines	210	(97)
PART FOUR recommended reading
Introduction	307	(2)
Leon Wainwright
Histories and Positions	309	(3)
Visual Practices	312	(2)
Exhibitions and Display	314	(2)
Institutions, Policies, and Reports	316	(3)
Contributors	319	(8)
Acknowledgments	327	(2)
Index	329