Afro-Atlantic Histories

Afro-Atlantic Histories
Title Afro-Atlantic Histories PDF eBook
Author Adriano Pedrosa
Publisher Delmonico Books
Pages 400
Release 2021-10
Genre Art
ISBN 9781636810027

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A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures. The plural and polyphonic quality of "histórias" is also of note; unlike the English "histories," the word in Portuguese carries a double meaning that encompasses both fiction and nonfiction, personal, political, economic and cultural, as well as mythological narratives. The book features more than 400 works from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as Europe, from the 16th to the 21st century. These are organized in eight thematic groupings: Maps and Margins; Emancipations; Everyday Lives; Rites and Rhythms; Routes and Trances; Portraits; Afro Atlantic Modernisms; Resistances and Activism. Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Emanoel Araujo, Maria Auxiliadora, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Paul Cézanne, Victoria Santa Cruz, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Melvin Edwards, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Ellen Gallagher, Theodore Géricault, Barkley Hendricks, William Henry Jones, Loïs Mailou Jones, Titus Kaphar, Wifredo Lam, Norman Lewis, Ibrahim Mahama, Edna Manley, Archibald Motley, Abdias Nascimento, Gilberto de la Nuez, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Dalton Paula, Rosana Paulino, Howardena Pindell, Heitor dos Prazeres, Joshua Reynolds, Faith Ringgold, Gerard Sekoto, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Rubem Valentim, Kara Walker and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Afro-Atlantic Flight

Afro-Atlantic Flight
Title Afro-Atlantic Flight PDF eBook
Author Michelle D. Commander
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 249
Release 2017-03-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0822373300

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In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas Allen Harris, and Saidiya Hartman engage with speculative thought about slavery, the spiritual realm, and Africa, thereby structuring the imaginary that propels future return flights. She goes on to examine Black Americans’ cultural heritage tourism in and migration to Ghana; Bahia, Brazil; and various sites of slavery in the US South to interrogate the ways that a cadre of actors produces “Africa” and contests master narratives. Compellingly, these material flights do not always satisfy Black Americans’ individualistic desires for homecoming and liberation, leading Commander to focus on the revolutionary possibilities inherent in psychic speculative returns and to argue for the development of a Pan-Africanist stance that works to more effectively address the contemporary resonances of slavery that exist across the Afro-Atlantic.

Afro-Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic

Afro-Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic
Title Afro-Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic PDF eBook
Author Tanya Barson
Publisher Tate
Pages 228
Release 2010-06
Genre Art
ISBN

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, 29 January until 25 April 2010.

Origins of the Black Atlantic

Origins of the Black Atlantic
Title Origins of the Black Atlantic PDF eBook
Author Laurent Dubois
Publisher Routledge
Pages 418
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 0415994454

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Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations, and their labor was the foundation for the expansion of the Atlantic economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Until relatively recently, comparatively little attention was paid to the perspectives, daily experiences, hopes, and especially the political ideas of the enslaved who played such a central role in the making of the Atlantic world. Over the past decades, however, huge strides have been made in the study of the history of slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world. This collection brings together some of the key contributions to this growing body of scholarship, showing a range of methodological approaches, that can be used to understand and reconstruct the lives of these enslaved people.

The Black Atlantic

The Black Atlantic
Title The Black Atlantic PDF eBook
Author Paul Gilroy
Publisher Verso
Pages 280
Release 1993
Genre History
ISBN 9780860916758

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An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.

Aesthetic of the Cool

Aesthetic of the Cool
Title Aesthetic of the Cool PDF eBook
Author Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher Periscope
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Aesthetics, Black
ISBN 9781934772959

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Essays on the African heritage in the art and music of the Americas.

Histórias afro-atlânticas

Histórias afro-atlânticas
Title Histórias afro-atlânticas PDF eBook
Author Adriano Pedrosa
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre
ISBN 9788531000485

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"Afro-Atlantic Stories presents a selection of 450 works by 214 artists, from the 16th to the 21st century, around the "ebb and flow" between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and also Europe, to use the famous expression of the ethnologist, French-Bahian photographer and babalao Pierre Verger. Brazil is a central territory in Afro-Atlantic history, as it received approximately 46% of the approximately 11 million Africans who disembarked compulsorily on this side of the Atlantic, over more than 300 years. It was also the last country to abolish commercial slavery with the Lei Áurea of ​​1888, which perversely did not foresee a project of social integration, perpetuating economic, political and racial inequalities to this day. On the other hand, the Brazilian protagonism in these stories led to the development of a rich and profound presence of African cultures here..." -- From MASP website masp.org.br (English) accessed 09.11.2021.