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Book

Afro-Atlantic histories

Call Number

  • 704.0396 A2587 (CEN)

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Publication Information

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.

Physical Description

389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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