Diaspora and visual culture : representing Africans and Jews /
edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff.
- xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The multiple viewpoint: diasporic visual cultures -- Points of departure -- Cultural identity and diaspora -- First diasporist manifesto -- Diasporic identity in the nineteenth century -- Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha: gender, race and the "Indian Maid" -- Pissarro's passage: The sensation of Caribbean Jewishness in diaspora -- The body of Alfred Dreyfus: a site for France's displaced anxieties of masculinity, homosexuality and power -- Engendering diaspora -- Diaspora and hybridity: queer identities and the ethnicity model -- Nomadic cultural production in African diaspora -- Black skin, white kins: metamodern masks, multiple mimesis -- Daughters of sunshine: diasporic impulses and gendered identities -- The hill behind the house: an Ashkenazi Jew and art history -- Poland-Brazil -- Imaging the Shtetl: diaspora culture, photography and eastern European Jews -- Alice Halicka's self-effacement: constructing an artistic identity in interwar France -- Helio Oiticica's Parangoles: nomadic experience in endless motion -- Memory and agency: Bantu and Yoruba arts in Brazilian culture -- Practicing modernism: "... for the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house...". Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. IV. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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Jewish art Art, African Art, Modern--19th century Art, Modern--20th century. Jewish diaspora African diaspora Identity (Psychology) in art