Visualising Slavery - Art Across the African Diaspora

This book adopts a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the experimental bodies of works produced by African, African American, African Caribbean and Black British artists in order to excavate and theorise the formal and thematic contours of an African Diasporic visual arts tradition.

About the author

Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of African American Studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham.

Hannah Durkin is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham.

Summary

This book adopts a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the experimental bodies of works produced by African, African American, African Caribbean and Black British artists in order to excavate and theorise the formal and thematic contours of an African Diasporic visual arts tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Celeste-Marie (School of Literatures Bernier
• Assisted by: Celeste-Marie Bernier (Editor), Celeste-Marie (School of Literatures Bernier (Editor), Hannah Durkin (Editor), Hannah (Department of American and Canadian Studies Durkin (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781800349216
• ISBN: 978-1-80034-921-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918