Eddie Chambers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584133 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eddie Chambers |
| NOMBRES | Eddie |
| APELLIDO | Chambers |
| FIRMA | CHAMBERS E |
| AFILIACIONES | Eddie Chambers is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History, University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches African Diaspora art. |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8900-396X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Challenge of the Peer Review
As I near the end of my time as Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal, I’d like to revisit some of the comments I made in my inaugural Editor’s Note in the Spring 2022 issue. In “The Baton Passed,” I refl
“Who can do something, do what they can”
A little while ago, BBC Radio 4 ran an intriguing documentary called “Recalculating Art,” which set out to explore and comment on the gaping disparities between marketplace evaluations of art by wo
Institutional Antics
One of Britain’s most vaunted, highly regarded, and indeed, self-regarding, of cultural institutions is the Royal Academy (RA). With Sir Joshua Reynolds as its first president (for nearly a quarter
Plundered Loot
A few years ago, in early June 2018, frieze.com ran a fascinating piece with the headline “UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Promises to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece if Elected,” followed by the
Another Way to Decolonize the Curriculum
A little while ago a colleague shared with me a job posting for a Professor in Anti/Post/Decolonial Theories and Praxes. The listing was in many respects not unusual, insofar as such opportunities
The Beauty of an Empty Plinth
The Baton Passed
Destigmatizing Art History
A Tale of Two Exhibitions
Accentuating Latin American Art’s African Dimensions
What theoretical and political exigencies framed the discussions of Latin American art in the 1970s, and what are the afterlives of those formations today? This Dialogues traces a constellation of curators and scholars that participated in the articulation of the field of modern and contemporary Latin American art, paying attention to experimentation and the ways coloniality haunt its development. Authors analyze episodes in the formation of the …
T’waunii Sinclair and the Ongoing Cultural Life of the Machete
This article concerns itself with a new body of work by Jamaican artist T’waunii Sinclair. The work utilizes the machete, in some respects a common, everyday implement but one which is imbued with all manner of associations, some challenging (for example, the British media’s reference to machetes as code for Black criminality). Other associations, ones that Sinclair is keen to advance in his work, relate to the African diaspora, Caribbean history…
Zippin' Up My Boots, Going Back to My Routes
This discussion essay on Hazel V. Carby's Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands considers the contrasting ways the dominant society and the people of the African diaspora approach and regard research into family histories. Beginning with reflections on the somewhat dreaded though seemingly benign question, "Where are you from?," the essay explores the shortcomings and racial biases of popular genealogical websites, contrasting these with the…
New Directions in Black British Art History
This article discusses the changing nature of art history when it comes to black British artists and suggests that such history has perhaps moved away from existing to instead correcting or addressing the systemic absences of such artists from British art. This is typified by Rasheed Araeen’s 1989 exhibition The Other Story, the first major attempt to create a broad black British art history, and several other not dissimilar, exhibitions. The art…
Olabisi Obafunke Silva
The Jamaican 1970s and Its Influence on the Making of Black Britain
The 1970s was the decade that witnessed the definitive creation of black Britain. This essay chronicles the influence of the belief system of Rastafari, originating as it did in Jamaica and having an intense appeal to sections of black Britain in the 1970s that led to the creation of a charged, explicit, and heightened sense of racial identity among young black Britons. This essay seeks to reflect on the influence of Jamaican 1970s on the creatio…
Roots & Culture
How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as “Black Britain.” Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the ex…
Reading the Riot Act
This article explores some of the ways in which the act of rioting has been visualized, firstly within reggae music and secondly within the work of several black British artists. The article begins with a consideration of images of burning buildings that were captured during the course of the riots in England in the summer of 2011, before briefly discussing some of the pitfalls in the terminology and language of the ‘riot’. The article discusses …
Remembering the Crack of the Whip
This paper explores some of the ways in which Black-British artists of the 1980s visualised slavery. The paper begins with a consideration of the social and political factors that contributed to the work of these artists, before briefly discussing some of the ways in which slavery and abolition have been constructed within Britain and the ways in which black artists' practice might challenge some of these constructs. The paper discusses specific …
Who'd a Thought It
Tribute to the Martyrs
The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie …
The Difficulties of Naming White Things
In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular reference to the teaching of art history. Chambers explores why certain subjects or disciplines must, apparently, have their content racially signified by prefixes, such…
His catechism 1
Cold Comfort’
History and identity
Black art now
Black art
The Jamaican 1970s and Its Influence on the Making of Black Britain
The 1970s was the decade that witnessed the definitive creation of black Britain. This essay chronicles the influence of the belief system of Rastafari, originating as it did in Jamaica and having an intense appeal to sections of black Britain in the 1970s that led to the creation of a charged, explicit, and heightened sense of racial identity among young black Britons. This essay seeks to reflect on the influence of Jamaican 1970s on the creatio…
The Difficulties of Naming White Things
In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular reference to the teaching of art history. Chambers explores why certain subjects or disciplines must, apparently, have their content racially signified by prefixes, such…
Cold Comfort’
Destruction of the NF
Black art
History and identity
Black art now
Cold Comfort’
His catechism 1
Who'd a Thought It
Tribute to the Martyrs
The new book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier charts is the first full mapping of a black heroic tradition and asks us to reconsider the memory of six individuals in particular: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. This roundtable features five responses to the book. Robert Levine, Patricia Hills, Alan Rice, Eddie …
The Difficulties of Naming White Things
In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular reference to the teaching of art history. Chambers explores why certain subjects or disciplines must, apparently, have their content racially signified by prefixes, such…
Reading the Riot Act
This article explores some of the ways in which the act of rioting has been visualized, firstly within reggae music and secondly within the work of several black British artists. The article begins with a consideration of images of burning buildings that were captured during the course of the riots in England in the summer of 2011, before briefly discussing some of the pitfalls in the terminology and language of the ‘riot’. The article discusses …
Remembering the Crack of the Whip
This paper explores some of the ways in which Black-British artists of the 1980s visualised slavery. The paper begins with a consideration of the social and political factors that contributed to the work of these artists, before briefly discussing some of the ways in which slavery and abolition have been constructed within Britain and the ways in which black artists' practice might challenge some of these constructs. The paper discusses specific …
Roots & Culture
How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as “Black Britain.” Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the ex…
New Directions in Black British Art History
This article discusses the changing nature of art history when it comes to black British artists and suggests that such history has perhaps moved away from existing to instead correcting or addressing the systemic absences of such artists from British art. This is typified by Rasheed Araeen’s 1989 exhibition The Other Story, the first major attempt to create a broad black British art history, and several other not dissimilar, exhibitions. The art…
Olabisi Obafunke Silva
The Jamaican 1970s and Its Influence on the Making of Black Britain
The 1970s was the decade that witnessed the definitive creation of black Britain. This essay chronicles the influence of the belief system of Rastafari, originating as it did in Jamaica and having an intense appeal to sections of black Britain in the 1970s that led to the creation of a charged, explicit, and heightened sense of racial identity among young black Britons. This essay seeks to reflect on the influence of Jamaican 1970s on the creatio…
Zippin' Up My Boots, Going Back to My Routes
This discussion essay on Hazel V. Carby's Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands considers the contrasting ways the dominant society and the people of the African diaspora approach and regard research into family histories. Beginning with reflections on the somewhat dreaded though seemingly benign question, "Where are you from?," the essay explores the shortcomings and racial biases of popular genealogical websites, contrasting these with the…
The Beauty of an Empty Plinth
The Baton Passed
Destigmatizing Art History
A Tale of Two Exhibitions
Accentuating Latin American Art’s African Dimensions
What theoretical and political exigencies framed the discussions of Latin American art in the 1970s, and what are the afterlives of those formations today? This Dialogues traces a constellation of curators and scholars that participated in the articulation of the field of modern and contemporary Latin American art, paying attention to experimentation and the ways coloniality haunt its development. Authors analyze episodes in the formation of the …
T’waunii Sinclair and the Ongoing Cultural Life of the Machete
This article concerns itself with a new body of work by Jamaican artist T’waunii Sinclair. The work utilizes the machete, in some respects a common, everyday implement but one which is imbued with all manner of associations, some challenging (for example, the British media’s reference to machetes as code for Black criminality). Other associations, ones that Sinclair is keen to advance in his work, relate to the African diaspora, Caribbean history…
“Who can do something, do what they can”
A little while ago, BBC Radio 4 ran an intriguing documentary called “Recalculating Art,” which set out to explore and comment on the gaping disparities between marketplace evaluations of art by wo
Institutional Antics
One of Britain’s most vaunted, highly regarded, and indeed, self-regarding, of cultural institutions is the Royal Academy (RA). With Sir Joshua Reynolds as its first president (for nearly a quarter
Plundered Loot
A few years ago, in early June 2018, frieze.com ran a fascinating piece with the headline “UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Promises to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece if Elected,” followed by the
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