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• Title:Towards an African Canadian art history : art, memory, and resistance / edited by Charmaine A. Nelson.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Nelson, Charmaine, editor, author.
  Ohri, Aditi, author.
  Crooks, Julie 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.
  
• Published/Created:Concord, ON : Captus Press, [2019]
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6549.5.B53 T68 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:McCarthy, George H.
  McDonald, Edith H.
  Artists, Black--Canada--History.
  Artists, Black--Canada--19th century.
  Africans--Canada--History.
  Slave trade--Canada--History.
  Slave trade--Canada--18th century.
  Enslaved women--Canada--History.
  Black people in art--Photography.
  Minstrel shows--Canada--History.
  Women artists, Black--Canada--21st century.
  
• Description:xviii, 382 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  Text in English.
  
• ISBN:9781553223658 (pbk.)
  1553223659 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Part 1: Memory, Nostalgia, and Spectacle
  Chapter 1: "Just Imported and To Be Sold": Creolization and the Slave-Master Relationship n Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia / Aditi Ohri
  Chapter 2: Exerting and Cultivating Selves: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Black Subject in Southern Ontario / Julie Crooks
  Chapter 3: "History Could be Taught by Means of Dolls ...": Race, Doll-Play, and the History of Black Female Slavery in Canada / Alexandra Kelebay
  Chapter 4: "Come One, Come All": Blackface Minstrelsy as a Canadian Tradition and Early Form of Popular Culture / Cheryl Thompson
  Part 2: Resistance and Cultural Preservation
  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
  Chapter 6: The Likeness of Fugivity: Transatlantic Considerations of a Canadian Photograph / Emilie Boone
  Chapter 7: Invisible Empires / Deanna Bowen
  Chapter 8: Spiritual Baptist Ritual Garments in Church and Community / Carol B. Duncan
  Part 3: Institutional Practice
  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
  Chapter 10: Cricket in Montreal: Visualizing Race, Masculinity, and Community in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Canada / Mercelie Dionne-Petit
  Chapter 11: Visualities of "Difference": De-Constructing Gendered "Third World" Subjects in Representations of Canadian International Aid / Christiana Abraham
  Part 4: Historiography
  Chapter 12: Authoring Belonging: Early African Canadian Fine Artists George H. McCarthy (1860-1906) and Edith H. McDonald (c. 1880-1954) / Adrienne R. Johnson
  Chapter 13: Beyond Parochialism: Telling Tales about Black Activism and Conceptual Art / Krys Verrall
  Chapter 14: Articulating Spaces of Representation: Contemporary Black Women Artists in Canada / Alice Ming Wai Jim
  Chapter 15: Claiming Space: The Development of Black Canadian Cultural Activism of the 1980s and 1990s / Andrea Fatona.