The Place is Here
The Work of Black Artists in 1980's Britain
ed. by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles ; contr. by Sonia Boyce, Laura Castagnini, Deborah Cherry ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Sonia Boyce, Laura Castagnini, Deborah Cherry, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Nick Aikens, Elizabeth Robles

Publication, year

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2019

Scope

431 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.

ISBN

9783956794667

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The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s. Within the context of Thatcherism and a racist art establishment, a new generation of black artists and intellectuals produced some of the most compelling ideas and images in recent British cultural history. Across four exhibitions, The result is an intergenerational dialogue around pressing intellectual, political, and aesthetic debates, highlighting the significance of the work of these artists for the present.

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Person as subject

Lubaina Himid, Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Sunil Gupta, …[et al.]

Location

Cabinet 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur