| Description |
xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The multiple viewpoint: diasporic visual cultures / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Pt. I. Points of departure. 1. Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall. 2. First diasporist manifesto / R. B. Kitaj -- Pt. II. Diasporic identity in the nineteenth century. 3. Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha: gender, race and the "Indian Maid" / Juanita Marie Holland. 4. Pissarro's passage: The sensation of Caribbean Jewishness in diaspora / Nicholas Mirzoeff. 5. The body of Alfred Dreyfus: a site for France's displaced anxieties of masculinity, homosexuality and power / Norman L. Kleeblatt -- Pt. III. Engendering diaspora. 6. Diaspora and hybridity: queer identities and the ethnicity model / Alan Sinfield. 7. Nomadic cultural production in African diaspora / Margaret Thompson Drewal. 8. Black skin, white kins: metamodern masks, multiple mimesis / Moyo Okediji. 9. Daughters of sunshine: diasporic impulses and gendered identities / Irit Rogoff |
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10. The hill behind the house: an Ashkenazi Jew and art history / Eunice Lipton -- Pt. IV. Poland-Brazil. 11. Imaging the Shtetl: diaspora culture, photography and eastern European Jews / Carol Zemel. 12. Alice Halicka's self-effacement: constructing an artistic identity in interwar France / Paula J. Birnbaum. 13. Helio Oiticica's Parangoles: nomadic experience in endless motion / Simone Osthoff. 14. Memory and agency: Bantu and Yoruba arts in Brazilian culture / Henry J. Drewal. 15. Practicing modernism: "... for the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house ..." / Aline Brandauer |
| Summary |
"Diaspora and Visual Culture marks the increasing importance of diaspora as a means of understanding the new modes of postnational identity. In examining the visual culture of the "classic" African and Jewish diasporas, contributors address different aspects of the multiple viewpoints inherent in diasporic cultures. Two key introductory essays by Stuart Hall and the painter R.B. Kitaj highlight the intersections of diaspora and cultural identity. The subsequent pieces examine individual instances of diaspora as diverse as homosexuality in the Dreyfus Affair, the Caribbean-Jewish Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, Yoruba diaspora art and performance in Brazil and New York, identity in the art of African-American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the formation of American, European and Israeli artistic identity and the possibility that queer culture is diasporic." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/99025364-d.html |
| Analysis |
Geschichte 1800-1999 |
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Aufsatzsammlung |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
African diaspora in art.
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African diaspora.
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Art, African.
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Art, Modern -- 19th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Identity (Psychology) in art.
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Jewish art.
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Jewish diaspora.
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| Author |
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
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| LC no. |
99025364 |
| ISBN |
0415166691 (hardbound : alk. paper) |
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0415166705 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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