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Shades of Black attempts to put a positive spin on the 80s ... --Art Monthly July-August 05 ... this book charts the impact of the Black Arts Movement on British cultural life since the 1980s, with contributions from actively involved artists, art historians, curators, and critics. --Art Review July 2005 an accessible academic text that anyone with even a cursory interest in the visual arts will find provoking and inspiring. Suede Magazine Shades of Black is an invaluable text for anyone in diaspora studies, cultural studies and comparative British and American studies and for historian and critics of visual art. It brings together a wide range of visual art with a superb collection of essays that set the historical and critical context for understanding one of the most vibrant moments in art history Hazel V. Carby, author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America Shades of Black is a remarkable document of creative thinking and archival importance. The editors have brought to life a decade rich in artistic experimentation and collaboration, which will shape the vision of artists and thinkers across generations and geographies. --Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University The explosion of creativity and the critical debates on black culture that emerged in Britain in the 1980s transformed reigning assumptions about black art around the world. This collection is an important effort to assess the work of that period and its lasting impact. --Coco Fusco, interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University Shades of Black is an invaluable text for anyone and everyone in diaspora studies, cultural studies, and comparative British and American studies and for historians and critics of visual art. It brings together a wide range of visual art with a superb collection of essays that set the historical and critical context for understanding one of the most vibrant moments in art history. --Hazel V. Carby, author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America ... an important slice of our cultural history. --The Independent, 27 May 2005 An accessible academic text that anyone with even a cursory interest in the visual arts will find provoking and inspiring. --Suede Set to be the key text of recent times that attempts to explore and present something of the work of black British artists of the late 20th Century... The book's chronology of artistic, cultural, and political events ... gives Shades of Black a particular usefulness. --Eddie Chambers, Art Monthly A book that brings much clarity to an area of contemporary art that remains unknown to far too many North Americans. This reviewer gained much from it, and only wishes that a companion volume reversing the ratio of plates to text would now be published. The oversize format even suggests a picture book, and we need to see more black arts from Britain. --Michael R. Moser, Leonardo A vibrant collection. --Julia Bryan-Wilson, Bookforum A lively--and sometimes contentious--discussion. In the best tradition of scholarly discourse, the essayists debate how to analyze and present the work created by these artists... --Zoe Ingalls, Duke Magazine This richly illustrated volume ... brings together a lively dialogue of leading artists, curators, art historians and critics. --International Review of African American Art A welcome addition to the literature of the visual arts... Shades of Black seems to me to demonstrate that the momentum gained in the recognition of the achievements of black artists is already very considerable and gathering pace. --Sandy Nairne, History Workshop Journal A serious and probing look at Black art in the 1980s and the important and ongoing issues that still remain from that key period in British (and US/UK Black) art. Many of these issues are important not only for Black artists, but for all artists, historians and curators, and this book has done us all a service by keeping these issues in the foreground (if I can put it that way without being accused of 'conceptual chaos and confusion'!). This is the best book on Black art and culture I have read for some time. --Gen Doy, The Art Book

Shades of Black is a remarkable document of creative thinking and archival importance. The editors have brought to life a decade rich in artistic experimentation and collaboration, which will shape the vision of artists and thinkers across generations and geographies. -Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University Shades of Black is an invaluable text for anyone and everyone in diaspora studies, cultural studies, and comparative British and American studies and for historians and critics of visual art. It brings together a wide range of visual art with a superb collection of essays that set the historical and critical context for understanding one of the most vibrant moments in art history. -Hazel V. Carby, author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America The explosion of creativity and the critical debates on black culture that emerged in Britain in the 1980s transformed reigning assumptions about black art around the world. This collection is an important effort to assess the work of that period and its lasting impact. -Coco Fusco, interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University

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David A. Bailey is a photographer and Senior Curator at Autograph ABP in London. He is coeditor of Veil: Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art and Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance. Ian Baucom is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity and Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (forthcoming from Duke University Press). Sonia Boyce is an internationally renowned visual artist. She is Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design at the University of the Arts, London. She was a co-director of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive at the University of East London (1996–2002).

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