Modernism and The Black Atlantic at Spikes Island in Bristol on 4 February 2017
Saturday School: Modernism and The Black Atlantic Led by Dr Elizabeth Robles will be at Spikes Island in Bristol on 4 February 2017
This study day traces the impact of Black Atlantic creative culture (a space of exchange across the continents of Africa, the Americas and Europe) on Modernism — from Picasso’s bronzes to the American Jazz influences of Dada — and the impact of black artists on the story of twentieth century art.
It introduces a wide variety of artists and artworks that tend to be marginalised in discussion around these histories, and examines developing debates around the use of ‘b/Black’ as a political identity in the visual arts and the formation of the Black Atlantic as a site for cultural production, while introducing theoretical frameworks of modernism, gender, and post-colonialism.