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Post Critical Museology
Part I Policy, practice and theory in the art museum1. The post-traditional art museum in the public realm2. The politics of representation and the emergence of audience3. Tracing the practices of audience and the claims of expertisePart II Displaying the nation1. Canon-formation and the politics of representation2. Tate encounters : Britishness and visual cultures, the transcultural audience3. Reconceptualizing the subject after post-colonialism and post-structuralismPart III Hypermodernity and the art museum7. New media practices in the museum8. The distributed museum9. Museums of the future10. Post-critical museology : reassembling theory, practice and policy.
Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums
The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an involvement with the bicentenary - reflects on the complexity and difficulty of museums' experiences in presenting and interpreting the histories of slavery and abolition, and places these experiences in the broader context of debates over the bicentenary's significance and the lessons to be learnt from it. The history of Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery officially become part of the National Curric...
Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School
Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School is established as the key text for all those preparing to become art and design teachers in the secondary school. It explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning and provides a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in the secondary school curriculum. Written by experts in the field, it aims to inform and inspire, to challenge orthodoxies and encourage a freshness of vision. It provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture. The thi...
Afroeurope@n Configurations
This volume brings together contributions from various disciplines in the humanities exploring a variety of cultural, social and political configurations produced by the African presence in Europe, and attempting to consolidate a comparative framework for the study of contemporary black literatures and identities across different national and linguistic contexts. From the circumstances of black students in Russia to the recovery of a forgotten African identity in the Canary Islands, from the specificities of Portuguese postcoloniality to the representations of Africans in Iceland, the essays collected here provide a wide spectrum of research on African Diasporas in Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Europe offering insights into previously little explored areas.
Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
This book provides the first systematic genealogy of postcolonial and decolonial practices emerging from Iberian art spaces. The title redefines Iberian Studies through a decolonial lens. It expands current debates on curating and contemporary art by exploring how cultural programming has engaged with the legacies and continuities of colonialism in contemporary European societies.
A Companion to Curation
The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on t...
State-of-the-Art Upcycling Research and Practice
This book presents the proceedings of the first International Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and Newcastle University. This book presents state of the art of research and practice in “upcycling” at the international level. The subject of this book, upcycling, is a term to describe the processes of creating or modifying a product from used or waste materials, components and products, which is of equal or higher quality or value than the compositional elements. This book describes new theories, approaches and scientific research findin...
Debates in Art and Design Education
Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to the changing fields of education and visual culture. Accessible, comprehensive chapters are designed to stimulate thinking and understanding in relation to theory and practice, and help art educators to make informed judgements by arguing from a position based on theoretical knowledge and understanding. Contributing artists, lecturers and teachers debate a wide range of issues including: the latest p...
Queer Times, Black Futures
Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to ...
I Am Black/white/yellow
Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. African Studies. This book engages with ways in which knowledge representing the black body, whether through film, ethnography, fashion, history, anthropological study or indeed literature, might be both encountered and countered. This landmark collection shifts spatially through a range of countries in present day westernEurope to interrogate the widespread assumption that the black body is already known, whether as primitive or neo-primitive, silenced or riotous The volume constructs a dialogue that is at once interracial as well as international, and which speaks at times consciously from the figuratively `black/white/yellow' body/bodies highlighted i...
