Afro-Atlantic Histories

Afro-Atlantic Histories is a comprehensive appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries, featuring over 400 works and documents by 200 artists. It explores the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe, challenging the notion of the Black Atlantic as a geography lacking precise borders. The book includes works from various mediums, including maps, paintings, sculptures, and more, and is organized into eight thematic groupings. Artists featured in the book 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.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 07 December 2021
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers

Afro-Atlantic Histories is a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries, published with Museu de Arte de São Paulo. It has been named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum and features over 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The book aims 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 is a 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, as it 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, 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, Wif.

Weight: 2041g
Dimension: 282 x 206 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781636810027