A thread on Black Feminist Art books that you should all be reading if you work in the Arts or studying a creative subject.
1.Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (Sexual Cultures) by cultural critic Uri McMillan (@urimac731).
The book explores how black women have personified art,expression,identity, & freedom through performance.
Buy: amzn.to/2n3AlYZ
The book explores how black women have personified art,expression,identity, & freedom through performance.
Buy: amzn.to/2n3AlYZ
2. 'We Wanted A Revolution: A Sourcebook' ignites further scholarship into black women artists, critics & curators between 1960 -80 showing the true breadth and diversity of black women's engagement with art, the art world, & politics.
Buy: bit.ly/2DC5wEV
Buy: bit.ly/2DC5wEV
3. The second volume of the book, 'New Perspectives' shares this important body of art by women of color, presents their voices, provides important commentary on that time and its unresolved issues, and offers extended documentation of the exhibition.
amzn.to/2DsPHNq
amzn.to/2DsPHNq
4. Representing the Black Female Subject in Western.
The author, Charmaine A Nelson, research and teaching explores various types of “high” and “low” art and popular art forms including TV, film, photography, prints, sculpture, painting, & dress.
Buy: amzn.to/2rsb5km
The author, Charmaine A Nelson, research and teaching explores various types of “high” and “low” art and popular art forms including TV, film, photography, prints, sculpture, painting, & dress.
Buy: amzn.to/2rsb5km
5. Inside the Ivory: Narratives of women of colour surviving & thriving in British academia.
This book includes a chapter from Aisha Richards, she chronicles her experiences of working in a the Creative Higher Education sector.
Buy: bit.ly/2yrc0Ri
This book includes a chapter from Aisha Richards, she chronicles her experiences of working in a the Creative Higher Education sector.
Buy: bit.ly/2yrc0Ri
A must read! Excite your visual sense by reading:
'Afrofemcentrism in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold (a View of Women by Women).
FREE PDF: bit.ly/2E3bzAd
'Afrofemcentrism in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold (a View of Women by Women).
FREE PDF: bit.ly/2E3bzAd
Sorry to distract the thread from books, but can we take a minute to apperciate the depths and personality in Elizabeth Catlett's painting 🤗.
This particular painting, 'War Worker' - last sold for $149, 000 at auction .
This particular painting, 'War Worker' - last sold for $149, 000 at auction .
Back to books 😃 7: Nwaanyizie. African Feminist Verses
Poetry collection dealing with women’s role, aspirations, and experiences as mother, widow, heroine, the sexually abused and the battered, but also with a focus on humanity and the environment.
Buy: bit.ly/2rACL6E
Poetry collection dealing with women’s role, aspirations, and experiences as mother, widow, heroine, the sexually abused and the battered, but also with a focus on humanity and the environment.
Buy: bit.ly/2rACL6E
8: African Women-African Art
Art an Exhibition of African Art Illustrating the Different Roles of Women in African Society.
Not very many copies seem to be available but there is one left on Vasco & Co, retailing for $55 dollars: bit.ly/2F64nCz
Art an Exhibition of African Art Illustrating the Different Roles of Women in African Society.
Not very many copies seem to be available but there is one left on Vasco & Co, retailing for $55 dollars: bit.ly/2F64nCz
9: African Art in the Cycle of Life
"Shows examples of tomb figures, posts, ancestor figures, masks, chairs, stools, cups, boxes, and doors and describes the background of each work"
Purchase: amzn.to/2n5cBDM
"Shows examples of tomb figures, posts, ancestor figures, masks, chairs, stools, cups, boxes, and doors and describes the background of each work"
Purchase: amzn.to/2n5cBDM
Art Curator Zoe Whitley wrote an article about Lynette Yiadom Boakye's printmaking exhibition.
This is a brilliant quote for your essays when critiquing 'institutional otherness' 👇🏿👇🏿
"Blackness to me isn't odd or other. It just is."
PDF: bit.ly/2n4F1xz
This is a brilliant quote for your essays when critiquing 'institutional otherness' 👇🏿👇🏿
"Blackness to me isn't odd or other. It just is."
PDF: bit.ly/2n4F1xz
Our last recommendation is: 'Kitchen Table Series' by Carrie Mae Weems.
The book consider domesticity, women’s circumstances, & their relationships with lovers, friends & children. Exploring gender & power roles in an intimate setting.
Available at: amzn.to/2Gb8lLs
The book consider domesticity, women’s circumstances, & their relationships with lovers, friends & children. Exploring gender & power roles in an intimate setting.
Available at: amzn.to/2Gb8lLs
So happy with the response to the thread. We are going to add a few more resources which focus on black women & art.
We also implore those with privilege in the Arts to help black women become curators, critics & art historians. Give them the resources to document our stories.
We also implore those with privilege in the Arts to help black women become curators, critics & art historians. Give them the resources to document our stories.
Have a peak at the 2016 Black Blossoms Exhibition catalogue, it includes artists statements from 18 black women artists who were studying at University of the Arts London.
View: issuu.com/shadesofnoir/d…
View: issuu.com/shadesofnoir/d…
Highly recommend tuning into Sharon Obuobi's podcast on all things African Art.
She recently spoke to Lina Iris Viktor about her art-making process with gold, her views on post-colonial race relations, & reaching audiences with digital media.
Listen: instudiowithso.com
She recently spoke to Lina Iris Viktor about her art-making process with gold, her views on post-colonial race relations, & reaching audiences with digital media.
Listen: instudiowithso.com
Lina Iris Viktor's work is magnificent.
'Passion: Discourses on Black Women's Creativity' by the late Maud Sulter who was born in Glasgow.
Buy the book: amzn.to/2DG7FAk
Find out more about Sulter: bit.ly/2DL8Iy3
Buy the book: amzn.to/2DG7FAk
Find out more about Sulter: bit.ly/2DL8Iy3
The very last resource we would like to recommend is 'Making Histories Visible' (@MHVArchive) led by Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid. The site has an extensive international black art & collections archive. True to Himid's practice, black women artists have been documented well
TIME TO ADD TO ADD TO THREAD...
One of the most beautiful publications I have ever set my eyes on!! MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora features over 100 black women photographers.
Currently sold out but you can join the mailing list for reprints announcements.:
mfonfoto.org/contact/
Currently sold out but you can join the mailing list for reprints announcements.:
mfonfoto.org/contact/
Honestly!! Look at some of the photography featured 💦💦
Left Pic: Fati-Abubakar from-Borno State Nigeria
Right Pic: Diva, Pretoria, South Africa. Photograph: Manyatsa Monyamane
Left Pic: Fati-Abubakar from-Borno State Nigeria
Right Pic: Diva, Pretoria, South Africa. Photograph: Manyatsa Monyamane
Lisa Anderson founder of @blackbritishart just wrote the most beautiful essay on Sola Olulode's work 'A British Blues: Formations of black joy expanded'
goo.gl/19kDdL
goo.gl/19kDdL
I don't believe I didn't recommend this earlier! Art On My Mind by bell hooks!
There is a chapter which discusses how women are not given the space and time to realize their creative practices unlike men who boldly proclaim they need space so they can be great...
There is a chapter which discusses how women are not given the space and time to realize their creative practices unlike men who boldly proclaim they need space so they can be great...
Im really interested in cyber feminism atm and I found a really cool essay on black cyber feminism and intersectionality: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=27476…
Essential reading, ‘In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden’ a warming yet heartbreaking read... it poise questions such as “What was it like to be an artist in our great grandmothers time?” 😭
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