Making Myself Visible

Arts & Photography

Araeen, Rasheed

Photography & Video

Kala Press

Silence inside a gun's mouth: Poems

Mahmood Jamal

Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Jimmie Durham

Social Sciences

<p>collected writings by Cherokee artist/writer/poet</p>

A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics

Fisher Jean Durham Jimmie

color, b&w book on Indian/UK artist/performer

CHILA KUMARI BURMAN: BEYOND TWO CULTURES

Nead, Lynda

Individual Artists

Nonfiction. In this pioneering work Olu Oguibe charts the life and career of Uzo Egonu, from his origins in Africa to his expatiation in Britain. Egonu, a remarkable, compassionate and very private artist, has been described as "perhaps Africa's greatest modern painter," one whose work challenges the impoverished Western myth of the naive African artist. The complexity of Egonu's work is firmly located within the tradition of modernism. What we see is a judicious synthesis of visual languages developed from his critical encounter with Western art and an informed awareness of his African heritage; a synthesis which reaches beyond mere formalist concerns to involve both the experience of his life in the West and the painful turmoils of his country of origin, post-colonial Nigeria. This monograph is a timely intervention in the prevailing debates on the role, position and aesthetic concerns of the African artist in the contemporary world, and offers a unique contribution to the scarce literature on artists of African, Asian or Latin American origin living in the West.

Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West

Oguibe, Olu

<p>Art. Art Criticism. This monograph traces Sonia Boyce's trajectory from early graphic work to her recent mixed-media pieces which draw on elements of British popular culture and cinema to address society's positioning of individuals in terms of race, class and gender. Unquestionably serious and with an unquestionable sense of humor, Boyce's work, ranging from photography to painting and installations, is here widely represented, and well-complemented by three intelligent essays by Gilane Tawadros, a biography of the artist, and, alongside the essays, excellently chosen excerpts from Boyce's working diaries. Tawadros' essays address cultural, racial, gender and visual/art historical issues raised over the trajectory of Boyce's artistic development, using such theorists as Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Italo Calvino, and Stuart Hall to contextualize the artist's magnificent and provocative work.</p>

Sonia Boyce: Speaking in Tongues

Tawadros, Gilane

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