{"product_id":"stick-to-the-skin-9780520286535","title":"Stick to the Skin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, assemblage, installation, video, and performance artists working in the United States and Britain from 1965 to 2015. The artists featured in this book cut to the heart of hidden histories, untold narratives, and missing memories to tell stories that stick to the skin and arrive at a new Black lexicon of liberation. Informed by extensive research and invaluable oral testimonies, Celeste-Marie Bernier's remarkable text forcibly asserts the originality and importance of Black artists' work and emphasizes the need to understand Black art as a distinctive category of cultural production. She launches an important intervention into European histories of modern and contemporary art and visual culture as well as into debates within African American studies, African diasporic studies, and Black British studies.   Artists featured: Larry Achiampong Hurvin Anderson Benny Andrews Rasheed Araeen Jean-Michel Basquiat Zarina Bhimji Sutapa Biswas Frank Bowling Sonia Boyce Vanley Burke Chila Kumari Burman Eddie Chambers Thornton Dial Godfried Donkor Kimathi Donkor Sokari Douglas Camp Melvin Edwards Mary Evans Nicola Frimpong Joy Gregory Bessiey Harvey Mona Hatoum Lubaina Himid Lonnie Holley Gavin Jantjes Claudette Johnson Tam Joseph Roshini Kempadoo Juginder Lamba Hew Locke Steve McQueen Chris Ofili Keith Piper Ingrid Pollard Thomas J. Price Noah Purifoy Faith Ringgold Donald Rodney Betye Saar Joyce J. Scott Yinka Shonibare Gurminder Sikand Marlene Smith Maud Sulter Barbara Walker Kara Walker Carrie Mae Weems Deborah Willis Hank Willis Thomas Lynette Yiadom-Boakye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...[A] welcome new volume . . . . [and] a Herculean effort of naming and contextualizing an array of vital and frequently overlooked practices and methods. Its power as an intellectual project and teaching resource is to work inductively, sidestepping theory and allowing artists’ words to elaborate the specificity of art making as a form of individual exploration and collective intervention.\" * caa.reviews - College Art Association *\u003cbr\u003e\". . . a timely contribution to the field of Black diasporic art history. . . . Celeste-Marie Bernier offers respite from seemingly interminable institutional tendencies that continue to limit Black British and African American art to particular curatorial and art-historical jurisdictions. Whereas the former is often expediently defined within the historical parameters of the 1980s, the latter is rarely viewed in relation to other art histories, not least those of the United States. \u003ci\u003eStick to the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e challenges these conventions and pathologies, bringing as it does a comparative study of the work of over fifty artists spanning half a century. . . . we can be grateful to Bernier who, as a UK-based academic, has taken it upon herself to produce a very tangible and substantial study on contemporary Black visual arts practice.\" * Burlington Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Throughout, Bernier examines how art can dismantle, disrupt and challenge the status quo. It can be a form of radical protest, used to confront racism and white privilege in a world that continues to be threatened by outsiders and “others”. This remarkable book makes very clear how and why this is important, more so today than ever.\" * Times Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD Lubaina Himid\u003cbr\u003e PREFACE “WE WILL BE \/ WHO WE WANT \/ WHERE WE WANT \/ WITH WHOM WE WANT”\u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION “Inside the Invisible”\u003cbr\u003e African American and Black British Artists and Art-Making Traditions\u003cbr\u003e 1 “Do Something with It”\u003cbr\u003e The Search for a New Critical Language in African American and Black British Art\u003cbr\u003e 2 “I’m Always Ready to Die”\u003cbr\u003e Memorializing Slavery and Narrativizing Freedom\u003cbr\u003e 3 “Lifting, Hanging, Burning”\u003cbr\u003e Defiance, Dissidence, and to Destroy Is to Create\u003cbr\u003e 4 “Branded, Raped, Beaten”\u003cbr\u003e Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness\u003cbr\u003e 5 “How to Paint Suffering”\u003cbr\u003e Anti-Portraiture, Anti-Product, and Anti-Painting\u003cbr\u003e 6 “Enter at Your Own Risk”\u003cbr\u003e Artist-as-Trickster-as-Prophet-as-Historianas- Witness-as-Freedom-Fighter-as-Artist\u003cbr\u003e 7 “BURIED, HIDDEN, AND DISGUISED”\u003cbr\u003e “Storying” in a State of Shock\u003cbr\u003e 8 “A FREAK IN THE BLIZZARD OF THE WHITE MAN’S GAZE”\u003cbr\u003e Black Absent Presences and Present Absences\u003cbr\u003e 9 An “Indelible Mark”?\u003cbr\u003e Autobiographies, Archives, and Amnesia\u003cbr\u003e 10 “I Was Branded”\u003cbr\u003e Spectacularized Histories, Serial Narratives, and Illicit Iconographies\u003cbr\u003e 11 “Power to the Powerless”\u003cbr\u003e Tracing Black Lives in Protest Portraits, History Paintings, and Radical Installations\u003cbr\u003e 12 “Hurting to Death”\u003cbr\u003e Struggle, Survival, and Storytelling in Salvaged Objects, Paint, Beads, and Steel\u003cbr\u003e CONCLUSION “Survivors of the Diasporic Journey”\u003cbr\u003e Past, Present, and Future Artists and Art-Making Traditions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE\u003cbr\u003e LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e INDEX","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402877804887,"sku":"9780520286535","price":60.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520286535.jpg?v=1730481755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stick-to-the-skin-9780520286535","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}