{"product_id":"world-is-africa-9781350170131","title":"World is Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld is Africa\u003c\/i\u003e brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice within the field of African diaspora art history. The texts range from book chapters and catalogue essays, to shorter texts. Chambers focuses on contemporary artists and their practices, from a range of international locations, who for the most part are identified with the African diaspora. None of the texts are available online and none have been available outside of the original publication in which they first appeared.The volume contains several new pieces of writing, including a consideration of the art world ''fetishization'' of the 1980s, as the manifestation of a reluctance to accept the majority of Black British artists as valid individual practitioners, choosing instead to shackle them to exhibitions that took place three decades ago. Another new text re-examines the map paintings' of Frank Bowling, the Guyana-born artist who \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, Eddie Chambers has been synonymous with incisive writing on Afro-Diasporic sonic and visual culture. True to form, the wide-ranging essays in \u003ci\u003eWorld is Africa\u003c\/i\u003e – from the aesthetic politics of the 1980s to jazz record sleeves to contemporary art – are at once precise and polemical. This is a vital companion to 1999’s\u003ci\u003e Run Through the Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, and introduces readers to Chambers's capacious intellectual practice – as pressing as ever, his writing elaborates the ongoing project of righting art history's many elisions. \u003ci\u003eWorld is Africa\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in Black Atlantic culture and the ever-shifting landscape of diaspora scholarship. -- Ian Bourland, Assistant Professor, Department of Art \u0026amp; Art History, Georgetown University, USA.\u003cbr\u003eWith\u003ci\u003e Run Through the Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Things Done Change\u003c\/i\u003e, Eddie Chambers established himself as perhaps the most trenchant and tenacious commentator on British art of the last two decades. \u003ci\u003eWorld is Africa\u003c\/i\u003e should leave no one in doubt about his unmatched authority in the field of Black Diaspora art criticism. -- Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor, African and American Diaspora Art, Princeton University, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Foreword, Patricia Bickers Acknowledgements  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection One - On Art History, Institutions, and Academia\u003c\/b\u003e 1 Section One, Introduction 2 The Harmful Consequences of Postblack  3 Africa 05: Polemic  4 Dead Artists’ Society 5 Black Artists and the Fetishisation of the 1980s  6 Black British Artists and Problems of Systemic Invisibility and Eradication: Creating Exhibition Histories of That Which Is Not There 7 Framing Black Art \u003cb\u003eSection Two - History and Identity\u003c\/b\u003e 8 Section Two, Introduction 9 ‘Handsworth Songs’ and the Archival Image  10 Black British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualising Slavery  11 2000’s Got to be Black  12 Next We Change Earth  13 Keith Piper, Donald Rodney and the Artists’ Response to the Archive 14 Black British Photography \u003cb\u003eSection Three - On Artists\u003c\/b\u003e 15 Section Three, Introduction 16 Sokari Douglas Camp CBE  17 William Kentridge: The Main Complaint  18 Hurvin Anderson: Double consciousness 19 Jonathan Jones: untitled (the tyranny of distance)  20 Vanley Burke: An Inglan Story, An Inglan History  21 Helen Wilson: Painting for a Brighter Future  22 Barbara Walker: Private Face  23 Barbara Walker: It’s a Bit Much  24 Reviewpiece: Ajamu \u0026amp; Sunil Gupta 25 Pat Ward Williams: Isolated Incidents  26 Donald Rodney: Three Songs on Pain Light \u0026amp; Time  27 Ben Jones: In the Spirit, In the Flesh  28 Frank Bowling and the Enigma of Guyana  29 Charles White’s 10- and 12- Inch Vinyl Messages  30 Hew Locke’s  Depictions of Royalty \u003cb\u003eSection Four - Black Artists in History\u003c\/b\u003e 31 Section Four, Introduction  32 Independence and Cultural Nationalism in Caribbean Art  33 Black Artists and the Greater London Council  34 Art and Society, Jonathan Greenland interview with Eddie Chambers  \u003cb\u003eSection Five – Criticize\u003c\/b\u003e 35 Section Five, Introduction 36 Contemporary Art or Contemporary African Art?: The Inevitable Death of the Latter 37 Richard Hylton, The Nature of the Beast: Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector: A Study of Policies, Initiatives and Attitudes 1976 – 2006: Afterword  38 Elvan Zabunyan, Black is a Color (A History of African American Art): Book review  39 “Black My Story, (Museum de Paviljoens, Netherlands, 2003): Book review  40 Criticize: Press Responses to Black Art an’ done and The Pan-Afrikan Connection exhibitions  \u003cb\u003eSection Six – Outernational\u003c\/b\u003e 41 Section Six, Introduction 42 Àsìkò Goes Outernational  43 Jamaica Goes Outernational  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738599633239,"sku":"9781350170131","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350170131.jpg?v=1720049606","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-is-africa-9781350170131","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}