Stuart Hall’s work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles two dozen of Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography. Providing rare insights into Hall’s engagement with the “radically different” intellectual and aesthetic space of the visual imaginary, these works articulate the importance of the visual as a site of contestation at the same time as it is a space in which Black artists and filmmakers reframe questions about diaspora, identity, and globalization. Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture demonstrates the breadth and range of Hall’s thinking on art, film, photography, archives, and museums. In so doing, it enables us to arrive at radical and innovative ways of understanding the world.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Detour to the Imaginary: Stuart Hall’s Writings on the Visual Arts and Culture / Gilane Tawadros
- Prologue: Subjects in History: Making Diasporic Identities [1998]
- Part I | Thinking-with/in the Image
- One. Isaac Julien’s Workshop [2013]
- Two. Democracy, Globalization, and Difference [2001]
- Three. The Way We Live Now [2004]
- Part II | The New Politics of Representation: Black Film/British Cinema
- Four. New Ethnicities [1988]
- Five. Threatening Pleasures: A Conversation between Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, and Stuart Hall [1991]
- Six. A Rage in Harlesden [1998]
- Seven. Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation [1992]
- Part III | Fanon, Creolization, and Diaspora
- Eight. The After-Life of Frantz Fanon: Why Fanon?Why Now? Why Black Skin, White Masks? [1996]
- Nine. Créolité and the Process of Creolization [2003]
- Ten. Legacies of Anglo-Caribbean Culture: A Diasporic Perspective [2007]
- Part IV | Assembling the 1980s
- Eleven. Minimal Selves [1988]
- Twelve. Assembling the 1980s: The Deluge—and After [2005]
- Part V | Photography, Representation, and Black Identity
- Thirteen. The Vertigo of Displacement: Shifts within Black Documentary Practices [1992] / David A. Bailey and Stuart Hall
- Fourteen. Preface to Different [2001]
- Fifteen. “Speak Easy”: Black in the 1970s [2012]
- Part VI | Reconstruction Work: Histories, Archives, and Diaspora
- Sixteen. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement [1984]
- Seventeen. The “West Indian” Front Room [2009]
- Eighteen. Constituting an Archive [2001]
- Nineteen. Whose Heritage? Unsettling “The Heritage,”Reimagining the Post-Nation [1999]
- Twenty. Modernity and Its Others: Three “Moments” in the Post-war History of the Black Diaspora Arts [2006]
- Part VII | Museums, Modernity, and Difference
- Twenty-One. Museums of Modern Art and the End of History [2001]
- Twenty-Two. Modernity and Difference: A Conversation between Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj [2004]
- Part VIII | Dreaming in Afro
- Twenty-Three. Chris Ofili in Paradise: Dreaming in Afro [2003]
- Twenty-Four. Maps of Emergency: Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates [2003]
- Index
- Place of First Publication
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