FURTHER READING
The following texts are key works that informed and inspired SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige. They are offered as starting points for further research and exploration on the themes and design of the exhibition.
Admassu, Emmanuel, and Anita Bateman, eds. Where Is Africa, Vol. 1. New York: Center for Art, Research and Alliances, 2023.
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Black Interior: Essays. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cooksey, Susan, ed. Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Gainesville: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2020.
Getachew, Adom. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Hartman, Sadiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe 12, no. 2 (June 2008): 1–14.
———. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Hayes, Patricia, and Gary Minkley, eds. Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.
Porter, James. Modern Negro Art. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
———. Ordinary Notes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Thompson, Krista. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
FURTHER READING
The following texts are key works that informed and inspired SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige. They are offered as starting points for further research and exploration on the themes and design of the exhibition.
Admassu, Emmanuel, and Anita Bateman, eds. Where Is Africa, Vol. 1. New York: Center for Art, Research and Alliances, 2023.
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Black Interior: Essays. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cooksey, Susan, ed. Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa. Gainesville: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2020.
Getachew, Adom. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Hartman, Sadiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe 12, no. 2 (June 2008): 1–14.
———. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Hayes, Patricia, and Gary Minkley, eds. Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.
Porter, James. Modern Negro Art. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
———. Ordinary Notes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Thompson, Krista. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
