Description
Book SynopsisInspired bya private archive and including contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s experience and politics, the essays, interviews, and images in this book provide a compelling and layered narrative of her journey through the junctures of race, gender, economic and political policy.
Beginning with the arrest, trial, and acquittal of Davis, 1970-72, and continuing through her world tour to thank those who joined in demanding her release and her influential career as a public intellectual, the book examines fifty years of history in light of the current political moment. Profusely illustrated with materials found in the archive (press coverage, photographs, court sketches, videos, music, writings, correspondence, and Davis’s political writings), the book includes an interview with Angela Davis and Lisbet Tellefsen, the archivist who collected these materials, as well as essays that ouch on visibililty and invisibility, history, memory, and the iconography of black radical feminism.
Trade Review"Profusely illustrated with materials found in the archive, including press coverage, photographs, court sketches, videos, music, writings, correspondence, and Davis’s political writings, the book also features interviews with Angela Davis and Lisbet Tellefsen, the archivist who collected those materials, as well as essays that touch on visibility and invisibility, history, memory, and the iconography of black radical feminism." * LA Weekly *
"This wonderfully illustrated scholarly catalogue is a treasure trove. . . .
Seize the Time successfully complicates and challenges our understanding of Angela Y. Davis and the visual culture (past and present) inspired by her ongoing fight for social justice." -- Rebecca VanDiver * Woman's Art Journal *
"It will be of great interest to readers involved with current activities on behalf of racial justice and to anyone interested in the political possibilities of visual imagery." * Artblog *
“The book is both a piece of history and a piece of art.” -- Pendarvis Harshaw * KQED *
Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword and Acknowledgements by Thomas Sokolowski
Angela Davis: A Chronology by Lisbet Tellefsen
Introduction: Angela Davis—Seize the Time! by Donna Gustafson
Bearing Witness: The Radical Mass Reproduction of Angela Davis by Gerry Beegan
Black Radical Feminism and the Iconic Status of Angela Davis by Nicole R. Fleetwood
An Archive of Resistance: A Conversation with Archivist and Collector Lisbet Tellefsen by Donna Gustafson
Interview with Angela Davis by Rene de Guzman
Selected Bibliography
