Petrine Archer Straw

"Avant-garde artists and writers courted black personalities such as Josephine Baker, Henry Crowder and Langston Hughes for their sense of 'otherness', Picasso, Brancusi, Giacometti, Leger, Man Ray, Sonia Delaunay, Bataille, Apollinaire and Nancy Cunard, among many others, enthusiastically collected African sculptures, wore tribal jewelry and clothes, and adopted black forms in their work. Their 'African' style influenced a larger audience anxious to be in vogue."--Jacket.

Avant-garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s

Negrophilia

Love & Responsibility celebrates the art of the Bahamas in the private collection of Dawn Davies. The book documents over 1,700 works in Dawn Davies' collection, with scholarly essays about the artists by its editor Dr. Erica James.

The Dawn Davies Collection, a Collection Catalogue

Love & Responsiblity

Arnolfini Gallery

Hayward Gallery

National Touring Exhibitions

A national touring exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery 1995-1996. Focuses on eight contemporary artists: David Boxer, Margaret Chen, Albert Chong, Leonard daley, Ras Dizzy, Milton George, Anna Henriques, Omari Ra.

Contemporary Jamaican Art

New World Imagery

Tate Gallery (Liverpool)

'Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic' explores the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth-century to today. The exhibition takes its inspiration from Paul Gilroy's influential book 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness' 1993. It features over 140 works by more than 60 artists. Gilroy used the term 'The Black Atlantic' to describe the transmission of black cultures around the Atlantic, and the instances of cultural hybridity, that occurred as a result of transatlantic slavery and its legacy. 'Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic' reflects Gilroy's idea of the Atlantic Ocean as a 'continent in negative', offering a network connecting Africa, North and South America, the Caribbean and Europe. It traces both real and imagined routes taken across the Atlantic, and highlights artistic links and dialogues from the early twentieth-century to today. The exhibition is divided into seven chronological sections. Charting new forms of art arising from black culture and the work of black artists and intellectuals, it opens up an alternative, transatlantic reading of modernism and contemporary culture.

Petrine Archer Straw

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