Race Anthropology And Politics In The Work Of Wifredo Lam

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Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam

Author : Claude Cernuschi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187855

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Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam by Claude Cernuschi Pdf

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology. Field work conducted in Cuba, including the witnessing of actual Afro-Cuban religious ritual ceremonies and information collected from informants, enhances the interpretive background against which we can construe the meanings of Lam's art. In the process, Claude Cernuschi argues that Lam hoped to fashion a new hybrid style to foster pride and dignity in the Afro-Cuban community, as well as counteract the acute racism of Cuban culture.

El Monte

Author : Lydia Cabrera
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023340

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El Monte by Lydia Cabrera Pdf

First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted influence of Afro-Atlantic cultures in Cuba. Cabrera details the natural and spiritual landscape of the Cuban monte (forest, wilderness) and discusses hundreds of herbs and the constellations of deities, sacred rites, and knowledge that envelop them. The result is a complex spiritual and medicinal architecture of Afro-Cuban cultures. This new edition of what is often referred to as “the Santería bible” includes a new foreword, introduction, and translator notes. As a seminal work in the study of the African diaspora that has profoundly impacted numerous fields, Cabrera’s magnum opus is essential for scholars, activists, and religious devotees of Afro-Cuban traditions alike.

Imaging Migration in Post-War Britain

Author : Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000583854

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Imaging Migration in Post-War Britain by Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk Pdf

This book examines the artistic practices of a range of British-based artists of East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese) heritage to consider the social, political and cultural effects of migration or diaspora on their creative production. Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk demonstrates three themes: the multiplicity and expansive contemporaneity of these artists’ visual oeuvres; the physical impact or interpretation of migratory circumstances on their artistic practices; and the necessity to continue to evolve ways of thinking about migration, race and border crossings in the current political climate of the 21st century. The book will be of interest to scholars studying art history, Asian studies, British studies, migration and diaspora studies, and cultural studies.

Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art

Author : Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000627107

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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton Pdf

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States. This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, American literature, gender studies, popular culture, and African American studies.

The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art

Author : Rosita Scerbo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040089521

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The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art by Rosita Scerbo Pdf

By studying multiple cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, the chapters of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural productions made by and about Black Latin American women. Rosita Scerbo analyzes a range of power dynamics as represented in different artistic media of the Afro-Latin/x American community, including photography, muralism, performance, paintings, and digital art. The book acknowledges that racial and gender equity cannot exist without Intersectionality and that is why the entirety of the chapters focus on cultural and visual productions exclusively created by Afro-descendant women. The Black Latin American women featured in the various chapters, spanning multiple artistic mediums and originating from various Latin American and Caribbean nations, including Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Cuba, collectively pursue the central aim of foregrounding the Afro-descendant woman’s experience. Simultaneously, they strive to enhance the visibility and acknowledgment of gendered Afro-diasporic culture within the Latin American context. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, women’s studies, Latin American studies, African diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.

Digital Mapping and Indigenous America

Author : Janet Berry Hess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000367140

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Digital Mapping and Indigenous America by Janet Berry Hess Pdf

Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian and First Nations land. The work of both established and emerging scholars addressing a range of geographic regions and cultural issues is also represented. Issues addressed include the history of maps made by Native Americans; healing and reconciliation projects related to boarding schools; language and land reclamation; Western cartographic maps created in collaboration with Indigenous nations; and digital resources that combine maps with narrative, art, and film, along with chapters on archaeology, place naming, and the digital presence of elders. This text is of interest to scholars working in history, cultural studies, anthropology, Native American studies, and digital cartography.

Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies

Author : Albert Alhadeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000036992

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Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies by Albert Alhadeff Pdf

This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly, Géricault’s own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged—alongside a growing number of abolitionists—overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and students of modernism.

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Author : Natasha Eaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000262551

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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia by Natasha Eaton Pdf

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.

Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity

Author : Elodie Silberstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000628470

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Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity by Elodie Silberstein Pdf

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural world. Drawing on a broad spectrum of archives extending back to the late 18th century – paintings, fashion plates, prints, photographs, and films – this study traces the intricate ways a patriarchal imperialism and a global capitalism have paired black women with the realm of nature to justify the exploitation both of people and of ecosystems. These dehumanizing and speciesist strategies of subjugation have perpetuated interlocking patterns of social injustice and environmental depletion that constitute the most salient challenges facing humankind today. Through a novel approach that merges visual studies, critical race theory, and animal studies, this interdisciplinary investigation historicizes the evolution of the boundaries between human and non-human animals during the modern period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, critical race theory, colonial and post-colonial studies, animal studies, and French studies.

The Iconology of Abstraction

Author : Krešimir Purgar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429557576

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The Iconology of Abstraction by Krešimir Purgar Pdf

This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings’ desire to imagine, understand and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualization, from cartography and medicine to astronomy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in image studies, visual studies, art history, philosophy and aesthetics.

Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

Author : Claude Cernuschi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000648355

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Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration by Claude Cernuschi Pdf

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete. Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis, primarily because the interpretation of cartoons and caricatures is highly contingent on their specific historical and cultural context. Although this connection has gone unnoticed in the literature, in retrospect, this correlation makes perfect sense. Not only was Schiele’s artistic production frequently compared to caricature (and derided for being “grotesque”), but Expressionism and caricature are natural allies. One may belong to “high” art and the other to “popular” culture, yet both presuppose similar assumptions and deploy a similar rhetorical position: namely, that the exaggeration of human physiognomy allows deeper psychological “truths” to emerge. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, popular culture, and politics.

Re-Situating Identities

Author : Vered Amit,Caroline Knowles
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019227441

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Re-Situating Identities by Vered Amit,Caroline Knowles Pdf

These essays seek to re-energize race and ethnic studies by moving away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation that have marked the field and focusing instead on systematic and empirically grounded investigations of the production of identities in power relationships.

Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations

Author : John Rex,David Mason
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521369398

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Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations by John Rex,David Mason Pdf

This book brings together internationally known scholars from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical traditions, all of whom have made significant contributions to the field of race and ethnic relations. As well as identifying important and persistent points of controversy, the collection reveals a complementary and multifaceted approach to theorisation. The theories represented include contributions from the perspective of sociology. These range from the established perspectives of Marx and Weber through to the more recent interventions of rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism and identity structure analysis.

Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Author : George Baca
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387633

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Nationalism's Bloody Terrain by George Baca Pdf

As many scholars have argued, racism and its passions are created by and subordinated to the nation. This volume places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or multi cultural nation-states. This way, each contributor analytically treats racism and its related concepts of race, identity, culture, and naturalizing symbols of blood to highlight the manner in which governing institutions use nationalist precepts to create "races". In the end, it is racism - the actual political practices of domination - that makes "race" salient, especially in its multi-cultural and liberal-democratic form.

What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

Author : Michael Banton†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386131

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What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity by Michael Banton† Pdf

Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to “race,” “racism,” and “ethnicity” in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.