{"product_id":"black-phoenix-third-world-perspectives-on-contemporary-art-and-culture-paperback","title":"Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRasheed Araeen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMahmood Jamal\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFacsimile compilation of the late-'70s journal on diasporic and colonial histories that paved the way for the British Black Arts Movement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in three issues between 1978 and 1979, \u003ci\u003eBlack Phoenix: Journal of Contemporary Art \u0026amp; Culture in the Third World\u003c\/i\u003e (the subtitle was changed to \u003ci\u003eThird World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e for its second and third issues) stands as a key document of its time. More than a decade after '60s liberation movements and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences that called for social and political alignment and solidarity to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, \u003ci\u003eBlack Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e issued a rallying call for the formation of a Third World, liberatory arts and culture movement on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979.\u003cbr\u003eBased in the UK, and both international and national in scope, \u003ci\u003eBlack Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e positioned diasporic and colonial histories at the center of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain--one that would yield complex and nuanced discourses on race, class and postcolonial theory in England in the decade that followed.\u003cbr\u003eA precursor to the British Black Arts Movement that formed in 1982 (which encompassed such cultural practitioners as the Black Audio Film Collective and cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall), \u003ci\u003eBlack Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e proposed a horizon for Blackness beyond racial binaries, across the Third World and the colonized of the interior in the West. This single-volume facsimile reprint gathers all three issues of the journal, which include contributions by art critics, scholars, artists, poets and writers, including editors Rasheed Araaen and Mahmood Jamal, Guy Brett, Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Ariel Dorfman, Eduardo Galeano, N. Kilele, Babatunde Lawal, David Medalla, Ayyub Malik, Susil Sirivardana and Chris Wanjala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 11.57 x 8.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766410182944,"sku":"9781736534670","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6ccd5ad9baa0a6828b85b1fc5b9fb38c.webp?v=1780292185","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/black-phoenix-third-world-perspectives-on-contemporary-art-and-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}