Annie E Coombes
Biographic Data
| ID | 114485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie E Coombes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie E |
| FAMILY NAME | Coombes |
| SIGNATURE | COOMBES A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Museums and the Ethics of Restitution: Benin City at the Crossroads of DebateMuseums and the Ethics of Restitution: Benin City at the Crossroads of Debate
Positive Living: Visual Activism and Art in HIV/Aids Rights Campaigns
Using the exhibition ‘Positive Living: Art and AIDS in South Africa’ (Peltz Gallery, London, 2016) as a starting point, this article offers itself as a short history of some key visual strategies developed to raise political consciousness in South Africa and internationally over one of the darkest periods in South Africa’s history, 1999–2006, when former President Thabo Mbeki, in denial about the relationship between HIV and AIDS, withheld life-s…
HIV/Aids in South Africa: Gender, Art and Activism - Introduction
Photography against the grain: Rethinking the colonial archive in Kenyan museums
This article revisits the representation of the state of emergency in Kenya, focusing on two instances where the colonial photographic archive has been worked against the grain: the National Museum of Kenya (Nairobi) and the Lari Memorial Peace Museum. I argue that these two examples effectively destabilize the colonial archive's conventionally reiterated truths in ways that afford the possibility for the viewer to think ‘otherwise'. Located in d…
Museum Transformations
Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya
Monuments and Memories: Public Commemorative Strategies in Contemporary Kenya
Visual century: South African art in context 1907-2007
Initiated by Gavin Jantjes, a South African artist living in exile for most of his professional life and curator of several groundbreaking exhibitions, Visual Century is one of the most comprehensi
Witnessing history/embodying testimony: Gender and memory in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper explores two very different contexts in South Africa where witnessing and secondary witnessing have a special impact on the nature of national memorialization: women's narrative accounts of their prison experiences; and therapeutic initiatives around HIV/AIDS. It asks whether experiences related through testimony of one kind or another can be embodied in forms which might enable access for non-participants, especially since the power o…
Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi
This article is a meditation on the nature of commemoration in a period of renewed interest in the concept of ‘national history’ in Kenya just prior to and during the 2007 election campaigns and the violence which erupted in its wake.1 This article is part of a longer chapter on monuments and memory in Kenya in the volume: Managing Heritage, Making Peace (Coombes, Hughes and Karega-Munene, Forthcoming Coombes, A. E., Hughes, L. and Karega-Munene.…
History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
Exile and Asylum: Women Seeking Asylum in ‘Fortress Europe
Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett-An Installation
Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett-An Installation. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Museum of Mankind, London, February 15-March 17, 2002
The art of memory
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
L'objet de la traduction: Notes Sur « l'Art » Et l'Autonomie Dans Un Contexte Post-Colonial
The Object of Translation: Notes on "Art" and Autonomy in a Postcolonial Context. - This article is an analysis of two exhibitions held in Britain in 1995 : "Africa: Art of a Continent" at the Royal Academy of Arts, and "Siyawela: Love, Loss and Liberation in Art from South Africa" at the Birmingham City Art Gallery. It explores the way in which both exhibitions are invested with reinstating the redemptive power of art and the fact that both are …
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Consuming Cultures
Gender, 'Race', Ethnicity in Art Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Annie E. Coombes and Penny Siopis in Conversation
Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of ra…
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
"Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today.... Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians…
Site Unseen: Photography in the Colonial Empire: Images of Subconscious Eroticism
The Colonial Harem by Malek Alloula , trans. Myrna and Wlad Goldzich, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 135 pp., 90 b. & w. illus., £9.95 From Site to Sight. Anthropology, and the Power of Imagery by Melissa Banta and Curtis M. Hinsley , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 1986, 136 pp., $26.00 Images of Women. The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East 1860–1950 by Sarah Graham‐Brown , London: Quartet Books…
Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities
This chapter focuses on what might be interpreted as the moment of a more self-consciously political conception of the roles available to museums in general. It explores a case study situated at a comparable historical conjuncture in 1902, when the Education Act of that year announced the same objective of ‘Education for AH’. The chapter is concerned with the problem of attracting a larger and more diverse public, proving the museums’ capacity as…
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
"Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today.... Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians…
Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi
This article is a meditation on the nature of commemoration in a period of renewed interest in the concept of ‘national history’ in Kenya just prior to and during the 2007 election campaigns and the violence which erupted in its wake.1 This article is part of a longer chapter on monuments and memory in Kenya in the volume: Managing Heritage, Making Peace (Coombes, Hughes and Karega-Munene, Forthcoming Coombes, A. E., Hughes, L. and Karega-Munene.…
Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities
This chapter focuses on what might be interpreted as the moment of a more self-consciously political conception of the roles available to museums in general. It explores a case study situated at a comparable historical conjuncture in 1902, when the Education Act of that year announced the same objective of ‘Education for AH’. The chapter is concerned with the problem of attracting a larger and more diverse public, proving the museums’ capacity as…
History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
Witnessing history/embodying testimony: Gender and memory in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper explores two very different contexts in South Africa where witnessing and secondary witnessing have a special impact on the nature of national memorialization: women's narrative accounts of their prison experiences; and therapeutic initiatives around HIV/AIDS. It asks whether experiences related through testimony of one kind or another can be embodied in forms which might enable access for non-participants, especially since the power o…
Visual century: South African art in context 1907-2007
Initiated by Gavin Jantjes, a South African artist living in exile for most of his professional life and curator of several groundbreaking exhibitions, Visual Century is one of the most comprehensi
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Gender, 'Race', Ethnicity in Art Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Annie E. Coombes and Penny Siopis in Conversation
Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of ra…
The art of memory
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Exile and Asylum: Women Seeking Asylum in ‘Fortress Europe
Positive Living: Visual Activism and Art in HIV/Aids Rights Campaigns
Using the exhibition ‘Positive Living: Art and AIDS in South Africa’ (Peltz Gallery, London, 2016) as a starting point, this article offers itself as a short history of some key visual strategies developed to raise political consciousness in South Africa and internationally over one of the darkest periods in South Africa’s history, 1999–2006, when former President Thabo Mbeki, in denial about the relationship between HIV and AIDS, withheld life-s…
Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett-An Installation
Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett-An Installation. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Museum of Mankind, London, February 15-March 17, 2002
Site Unseen: Photography in the Colonial Empire: Images of Subconscious Eroticism
The Colonial Harem by Malek Alloula , trans. Myrna and Wlad Goldzich, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 135 pp., 90 b. & w. illus., £9.95 From Site to Sight. Anthropology, and the Power of Imagery by Melissa Banta and Curtis M. Hinsley , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 1986, 136 pp., $26.00 Images of Women. The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East 1860–1950 by Sarah Graham‐Brown , London: Quartet Books…
For God and for England‘: Contributions to an Image of Africa in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century
For God and for England‘: Contributions to an Image of Africa in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century
Lost and Found’ at the Museum of Mankind
Lost Magic Kingdoms and Six Paper Moons from Nahuatl, an exhibition at the Museum of Mankind, London, selected and arranged by Eduardo Paolozzi , 1985; accompanying book by Eduardo Paolozzi, Malcolm McLeod, Dawn Ades , and Christopher Frayling , London: British Museum Publications, 1985, 160 pp., 150 ills, 48 col pls, £8.50
Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities
This chapter focuses on what might be interpreted as the moment of a more self-consciously political conception of the roles available to museums in general. It explores a case study situated at a comparable historical conjuncture in 1902, when the Education Act of that year announced the same objective of ‘Education for AH’. The chapter is concerned with the problem of attracting a larger and more diverse public, proving the museums’ capacity as…
Site Unseen: Photography in the Colonial Empire: Images of Subconscious Eroticism
The Colonial Harem by Malek Alloula , trans. Myrna and Wlad Goldzich, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 135 pp., 90 b. & w. illus., £9.95 From Site to Sight. Anthropology, and the Power of Imagery by Melissa Banta and Curtis M. Hinsley , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press, 1986, 136 pp., $26.00 Images of Women. The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East 1860–1950 by Sarah Graham‐Brown , London: Quartet Books…
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
"Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today.... Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians…
Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Consuming Cultures
Gender, 'Race', Ethnicity in Art Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Annie E. Coombes and Penny Siopis in Conversation
Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of ra…
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
L'objet de la traduction: Notes Sur « l'Art » Et l'Autonomie Dans Un Contexte Post-Colonial
The Object of Translation: Notes on "Art" and Autonomy in a Postcolonial Context. - This article is an analysis of two exhibitions held in Britain in 1995 : "Africa: Art of a Continent" at the Royal Academy of Arts, and "Siyawela: Love, Loss and Liberation in Art from South Africa" at the Birmingham City Art Gallery. It explores the way in which both exhibitions are invested with reinstating the redemptive power of art and the fact that both are …
The art of memory
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
Exile and Asylum: Women Seeking Asylum in ‘Fortress Europe
Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett-An Installation
Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett-An Installation. Commissioned and produced by Artangel. Museum of Mankind, London, February 15-March 17, 2002
Witnessing history/embodying testimony: Gender and memory in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper explores two very different contexts in South Africa where witnessing and secondary witnessing have a special impact on the nature of national memorialization: women's narrative accounts of their prison experiences; and therapeutic initiatives around HIV/AIDS. It asks whether experiences related through testimony of one kind or another can be embodied in forms which might enable access for non-participants, especially since the power o…
Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi
This article is a meditation on the nature of commemoration in a period of renewed interest in the concept of ‘national history’ in Kenya just prior to and during the 2007 election campaigns and the violence which erupted in its wake.1 This article is part of a longer chapter on monuments and memory in Kenya in the volume: Managing Heritage, Making Peace (Coombes, Hughes and Karega-Munene, Forthcoming Coombes, A. E., Hughes, L. and Karega-Munene.…
Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya
Monuments and Memories: Public Commemorative Strategies in Contemporary Kenya
Visual century: South African art in context 1907-2007
Initiated by Gavin Jantjes, a South African artist living in exile for most of his professional life and curator of several groundbreaking exhibitions, Visual Century is one of the most comprehensi
Museum Transformations
Photography against the grain: Rethinking the colonial archive in Kenyan museums
This article revisits the representation of the state of emergency in Kenya, focusing on two instances where the colonial photographic archive has been worked against the grain: the National Museum of Kenya (Nairobi) and the Lari Memorial Peace Museum. I argue that these two examples effectively destabilize the colonial archive's conventionally reiterated truths in ways that afford the possibility for the viewer to think ‘otherwise'. Located in d…
Positive Living: Visual Activism and Art in HIV/Aids Rights Campaigns
Using the exhibition ‘Positive Living: Art and AIDS in South Africa’ (Peltz Gallery, London, 2016) as a starting point, this article offers itself as a short history of some key visual strategies developed to raise political consciousness in South Africa and internationally over one of the darkest periods in South Africa’s history, 1999–2006, when former President Thabo Mbeki, in denial about the relationship between HIV and AIDS, withheld life-s…
History (17 works) · Art (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Art history (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)