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*First history of Black artists & black art in Britain *Black british artists like Ofili & McQueen are very popular and highly respected. *Students on a variety of courses and general readers will want to read this.
List of contents
Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present Chapters Foreword: Celebrating Nelson's Ships Introduction: Some Problems with History and its Treatment of Black-British Artists. Chapter One: The Pioneering Generation of Caribbean Artists Chapter Two: Early Contributions by South Asian Artists Chapter Three: The Significance of the 1970s Chapter Four: Uzo Egonu and Contemporary African Art in Britain Chapter Five: The Earliest Black-British Practitioners Chapter Six: South Asian Stories Chapter Seven: The 'Black Art' Generation and the 1980s Chapter Eight: The Rise and Fall of The Black-Art Gallery Chapter Nine: The Emergence of Black Women Artists: Arguments and Opinions Chapter Ten: Sonia Boyce and Other Black Women Artists Chapter Eleven: Substantial Sculpture: The work of Sokari Douglas Camp, Veronica Ryan, and Permindar Kaur. Chapter Twelve: Black Artists of the 1990s Generation Chapter Thirteen: The Triumphant Triumvirate: Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, and Steve McQueen. Epilogue: The New Generation
About the author
Eddie Chambers is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he teaches the art history of the African Diaspora. He gained his Ph.D. from Goldsmith's College, University of London and between 2003 and 2009 he was a Visiting Professor, Art History, at Emory University, Atlanta. Since the early 1980s Eddie Chambers has been organizing and curating artists' exhibitions in Britain and a range of other countries, including the US, Australia and Jamaica.
