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Title

Lumumba in the arts / edited by Matthias De Groof.

Publication

• Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2020]
• © 2020

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Additional Authors

De Groof, Matthias

Description

463 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, map, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in public space. Reverting to either beatifying or diabolising his persona, no art form has been able to escape and remain indifferent to Lumumba. Artists observe the memory and the unresolved suffering that inscribed itself both upon Lumumba's body and within the history of Congo. If Lumumba - as an icon - lives on today, it is because the need for decolonisation does as well. Rather than seeking to unravel the truth of actual events surrounding the historical Lumumba, this book engages with his representations. What is more, it considers every historiography as inherently embedded in iconography. Film scholars, art critics, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists discuss the rich iconographic heritage inspired by Lumumba. Furthermore, 'Lumumba's Iconography in the Arts' offers unique testimonies by a number of artists who have contributed to Lumumba's polymorphic iconography, such as Marlène Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Raoul Peck, and Tshibumba Matulu, and includes contributions by such highly acclaimed scholars as Gayatri Spivak, Johannes Fabian, Bogumil Jewsiewicky, and Elikia M'Bokolo.

Subject

• Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 > Pictorial works
• Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961
• 1960-1965
• Art and state > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Art and state
• Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > Civil War, 1960-1965
• Congo (Democratic Republic)

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 LUMUMBA IN HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM BETE NOIRE TO BEATIFICATION -- History as Spectacle / Isabelle de Rezende -- Lumumba, a Never-ending Tragedy and the Unfulfilled Mourning Process of Colonisation / Jean Omasombo Tshonda -- A History of Glory and Dignity: Patrice Lumumba in Historical Imagination and Postcolonial Genealogies / Pedro Monaville -- Patrice Lumumba and the Past Conditional: The Virtual Reality of a Martyr / Christopher L. Miller -- The History of Patrice Lumumba's Historiography / Matthias De Groof -- Gallery Section -- pt. 2 ICONOGRAPHY OF LUMUMBA -- Cinema -- Lumumba in Cinema / Matthias De Groof -- It's About the Image / Raoul Peck -- Lumumba entre deux genres: Peck's Filmic Diptych / Karen Bouwer -- The Masks of the Savage: Lumumba and the Independence of the Congo / Rosario Giordano -- Imagining Lumumba / Matthias De Groof -- Theatre -- Lumumba on Stage: X Times a Murder / Piet Defraeye -- Photography -- Picturing Lumumba: Framed in Colonial Time / Mark Sealy -- Poetry -- Tributes to Patrice Lumumba in the Poetry of the American Continent, 1961-1966 / Mathieu Zana Etambala -- Comics -- Between Communicative and Cultural Memory: The Figure of Lumumba as Decolonial Counterpoint in Nicolas Pitz's Comics Les Jardins du Congo (2013) / Veronique Bragard -- Music -- The Figurative Representation of Lumumba in Popular Music / Leon Tsambu -- Lumumba in the Hood: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba in Rap Music since 1990 / Idesbald Goddeeris -- Painting -- A Congolese Hero to the Oppressed Peoples of the World: Lumumba, from Christlike Martyr to Guide for the Future / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Conversations / Johannes Fabian -- Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, interviewed by Matthias De Groof-My Pauline and Your Patrice -- Public space -- Official Miniatures: The Figure of Patrice Lumumba in the Global and the National Contexts / Pierre Petit -- Representing Lumumba (1956-1961): The Twists and Turns of Belgian Colonial Propaganda / Julien Truddaiu -- Down Lumumba Lane / Robbert Jacobs -- Lumumba's Bike: A Rhizomatic Walk in the Park / Piet Defraeye.

Call Number

Sc F 21-236

ISBN

• 9789462701748
• 9462701741

LCCN

2019466192

OCLC

1085637880

Title

Lumumba in the arts / edited by Matthias De Groof.

Publisher

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

© 2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452) and index.

Chronological Term

1960-1965

Added Author

De Groof, Matthias, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 21-236