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Afro-Atlantic histories

Title

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.

Publication

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.
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Description

389 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (chiefly color); 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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
Illustrated works.

Note

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.
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.
"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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

Text in English.

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.

Call Number

Sc F 22-112

ISBN

9781636810027
1636810020

LCCN

2021943887

OCLC

1256541466

Title

Publisher

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.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Text in English.

Indexed Term

Fine arts

The arts

Ethnic studies

Travel & holiday

Cultural, ethnic & media studies

History of art

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Brazil Sao Paulo.

Added Author

Pedrosa, Adriano, editor, contributor.

Toledo, Tomás, editor, contributor.

Heráclito, Ayrson, contributor.

Willis, Deborah, 1948- contributor.

Menezes, Hélio, contributor.

Fletcher, Kanitra, contributor.

Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz, contributor.

Crockett, Vivian, contributor.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, organizer, host institution.

Instituto Tomie Ohtake, host institution.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, organizer, host institution.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.

Dallas Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 22-112

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