Krista Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krista Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krista |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Eye for the Tropics
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands' tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque "tropical" p…
L’histoire de l’art à l’aune de la fiction. Pour une extension du domaine de la recherche
Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, les transformations de l’histoire de l’art l’amènent parfois à se définir dans une rhétorique entérinant son infériorité disciplinaire et la conduisent, en conséquence, à s’approprier les outils et l’horizon de disciplines considérées plus surplombantes, plus englobantes, à l’instar de la sociologie, de l’histoire, et surtout – plus récemment – de l’anthropologie. Cette quête de fins ambitieuses qui n’appartiendr…
Afrotropes
The term afrotropes is a neologism referring to those recurrent visual forms that have emerged within and become central to the formation of African diasporic culture and identity, whether the slav
Ivan Karp (1943–2011)
June 01 2012 Ivan Karp (1943–2011) Mary Jo Arnoldi, Mary Jo Arnoldi Curator for Africa and chair of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Howard Morphy, Howard Morphy Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of the Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. [email protected]…
Perpetual Returns
In this introduction to the special issue New World Slavery and the Matter of the Visual, Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson not only frame the scholarly essays and artists' portfolios collected in the volume but also argue for a reorientation of both art history and black studies in light of the ongoing specular effects of racial bondage. In so doing, they underline the importance of the visual to the rewiring of slavery's imaginary by examining …
The Evidence of Things Not Photographed
Slavery and apprenticeship came to an end in the British West Indies in 1838, the year photography was developed as a fixed representational process. No photographs of slavery in the region exist or have been found. Despite this visual lacuna, some recent historical accounts of slavery reproduce photographs that seem to present the period in photographic form. Typically these images date to the late nineteenth century. Rather than see such uses o…
An Eye for the Tropics
The Evidence of Things Not Photographed
Slavery and apprenticeship came to an end in the British West Indies in 1838, the year photography was developed as a fixed representational process. No photographs of slavery in the region exist or have been found. Despite this visual lacuna, some recent historical accounts of slavery reproduce photographs that seem to present the period in photographic form. Typically these images date to the late nineteenth century. Rather than see such uses o…
Afrotropes
The term afrotropes is a neologism referring to those recurrent visual forms that have emerged within and become central to the formation of African diasporic culture and identity, whether the slav
Perpetual Returns
In this introduction to the special issue New World Slavery and the Matter of the Visual, Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson not only frame the scholarly essays and artists' portfolios collected in the volume but also argue for a reorientation of both art history and black studies in light of the ongoing specular effects of racial bondage. In so doing, they underline the importance of the visual to the rewiring of slavery's imaginary by examining …
An Eye for the Tropics
Perpetual Returns
In this introduction to the special issue New World Slavery and the Matter of the Visual, Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson not only frame the scholarly essays and artists' portfolios collected in the volume but also argue for a reorientation of both art history and black studies in light of the ongoing specular effects of racial bondage. In so doing, they underline the importance of the visual to the rewiring of slavery's imaginary by examining …
The Evidence of Things Not Photographed
Slavery and apprenticeship came to an end in the British West Indies in 1838, the year photography was developed as a fixed representational process. No photographs of slavery in the region exist or have been found. Despite this visual lacuna, some recent historical accounts of slavery reproduce photographs that seem to present the period in photographic form. Typically these images date to the late nineteenth century. Rather than see such uses o…
Ivan Karp (1943–2011)
June 01 2012 Ivan Karp (1943–2011) Mary Jo Arnoldi, Mary Jo Arnoldi Curator for Africa and chair of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Howard Morphy, Howard Morphy Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of the Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. [email protected]…
L’histoire de l’art à l’aune de la fiction. Pour une extension du domaine de la recherche
Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, les transformations de l’histoire de l’art l’amènent parfois à se définir dans une rhétorique entérinant son infériorité disciplinaire et la conduisent, en conséquence, à s’approprier les outils et l’horizon de disciplines considérées plus surplombantes, plus englobantes, à l’instar de la sociologie, de l’histoire, et surtout – plus récemment – de l’anthropologie. Cette quête de fins ambitieuses qui n’appartiendr…
Afrotropes
The term afrotropes is a neologism referring to those recurrent visual forms that have emerged within and become central to the formation of African diasporic culture and identity, whether the slav
An Eye for the Tropics
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands' tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque "tropical" p…
Art (6 works) · History (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art & Art Instruction (2 works) · Art History & Criticism (2 works)