Towards an African Canadian art history
Subtitle: art, memory, and resistance
By: edited by Charmaine A. Nelson (Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Contributors: Ohri, Aditi, author; Crooks, Julie, 1962- author; Kelebay, Alexandra, author; Thompson, Cheryl, author; Boone, Emilie, author; Bowen, Deanna, author; Duncan, Carol B. (Carol Bernadette), 1965- author; Dionne-Petit, Mercelie, author; Abraham, Christiana, 1966- author; Johnson, Adrienne R. author; Verrall, Krys, 1957- author; Jim, Alice Ming Wai, 1970- author; Fatona, Andrea, 1963- author
Publisher: Captus Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Concord, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781553223658
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Black Artists; History; Africans; Slave trade; Women slaves; Blacks in art; Photography; Minstrel shows; Black Women artists
Description: Towards an African Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance, is the first book to consoloidate the field of African Canadian Art History. In this book, Charmaine A. Nelson and her colleagues--a group of established and up-and-coming artists, scholars, and cultural critics--argue for an African Canadian Art History that can simultaneously examine the artistic contributions of black Canadian artists within their unique historical contexts, critique the colonial representation of black subjects by white artists, and contest the customary racial homogeneity of Canadian Art History. Challenging the traditional notions of artistic value, this groundbreaking book examines art, artists, and visual and material culture from the eighteenth century to the present, analyzing "high," "low," and popular art across various media, with a focus to offer a new perspective on Canadian Art History--an African Canadian Art History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Memory, Nostalgia, and Spectacle; title: Chapter 1: "Just Imported and To Be Sold": Creolization and the Slave-Master Relationship n Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia / Aditi Ohri; title: Chapter 2: Exerting and Cultivating Selves: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Black Subject in Southern Ontario / Julie Crooks; title: Chapter 3: "History Could be Taught by Means of Dolls ...": Race, Doll-Play, and the History of Black Female Slavery in Canada / Alexandra Kelebay; title: Chapter 4: "Come One, Come All": Blackface Minstrelsy as a Canadian Tradition and Early Form of Popular Culture / Cheryl Thompson; title: Part 2: Resistance and Cultural Preservation; title: Chapter 5: "The Canadian Inhabitants are Remarkably Fond of Dancing": Reading the African Musicians in George Heriot's 'Minuets of the Canadians' (1807) / Charmaine A. Nelson; title: Chapter 6: The Likeness of Fugivity: Transatlantic Considerations of a Canadian Photograph / Emilie Boone; title: Chapter 7: Invisible Empires / Deanna Bowen; title: Chapter 8: Spiritual Baptist Ritual Garments in Church and Community / Carol B. Duncan; title: Part 3: Institutional Practice; title: Chapter 9: From 'Portrait of a Negro Slave' to 'Portrait of a Haitian Woman': The Racial Politics of Renaming Art in Canadian Museum Practice / Charmaine A. Nelson; title: Chapter 10: Cricket in Montreal: Visualizing Race, Masculinity, and Community in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Canada / Mercelie Dionne-Petit; title: Chapter 11: Visualities of "Difference": De-Constructing Gendered "Third World" Subjects in Representations of Canadian International Aid / Christiana Abraham; title: Part 4: Historiography; title: Chapter 12: Authoring Belonging: Early African Canadian Fine Artists George H. McCarthy (1860-1906) and Edith H. McDonald (c. 1880-1954) / Adrienne R. Johnson; title: Chapter 13: Beyond Parochialism: Telling Tales about Black Activism and Conceptual Art / Krys Verrall; title: Chapter 14: Articulating Spaces of Representation: Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada / Alice Ming Wai Jim; title: Chapter 15: Claiming Space: The Development of Black Canadian Cultural Activism of the 1980s and 1990s / Andrea Fatona.