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Entangled pasts, 1768-now : art, colonialism and change / exhibition curators: Dorothy Price, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Sarah Lea.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2024.Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781912520992
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Contents:
Entangled pasts, 1768-now: Art, colonialism and change / Dorothy Price, with Sarah Lea
'All beautiful in woe': The Royal Academy and enslavement, 1768-1840 / Esther Chadwick
Repairing the sable Venus / Cora Gilroy-Ware
Fallacies of hope / Dorothy Price
Catalogue / with section introductions by Sarah Lea, Rose Thompson and Alayo Akinkugbe
The First Supper by Tavares Strachan / Alayo Akinkugbe
Sites of power: Portraits and presence / Sarah Lea
Sites of power: Conflict and ambition / Sarah Lea
Sites of power: Imagining India / Sarah Lea
Beauty and difference: Landscape and architecture / Sarah Lea
Beauty and difference: Prints, poetry, sculpture and photography / Sarah Lea
Beauty and difference: Models, exhibitors, presidents: constructing whiteness / Alayo Akinkugbe
Crossing waters: The aquatic sublime / Rose Thompson
Crossing waters: Where to from here? / Sarah Lea
Summary: Informed by ongoing research, this handsome exhibition catalogue published to accompany Entangled Pasts, 1768-now at the Royal Academy 3 February – 28 April 2024, features the work of artists connected with the Academy in an exploration of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging. Contemporary and historic works are brought together as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism, and how it may help set a course for the future. The life-size painted cut-out figures of Lubaina Himid’s installation Naming the Money; Hew Locke’s Armada, a flotilla of ‘votive boats’ recalling different periods and places; powerful paintings, photographs, films, sculptures, drawings and prints by Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, John Akomfrah, Isaac Julien, El Anatsui, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Mohini Chandra and Betye Saar; and historical works by artists such as Joshua Reynolds, J. M. W. Turner and John Singleton Copley create connections across time that examine questions of power, representation and history.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 3 February - 28 April 2024.

Entangled pasts, 1768-now: Art, colonialism and change / Dorothy Price, with Sarah Lea

'All beautiful in woe': The Royal Academy and enslavement, 1768-1840 / Esther Chadwick

Repairing the sable Venus / Cora Gilroy-Ware

Fallacies of hope / Dorothy Price

Catalogue / with section introductions by Sarah Lea, Rose Thompson and Alayo Akinkugbe

The First Supper by Tavares Strachan / Alayo Akinkugbe

Sites of power: Portraits and presence / Sarah Lea

Sites of power: Conflict and ambition / Sarah Lea

Sites of power: Imagining India / Sarah Lea

Beauty and difference: Landscape and architecture / Sarah Lea

Beauty and difference: Prints, poetry, sculpture and photography / Sarah Lea

Beauty and difference: Models, exhibitors, presidents: constructing whiteness / Alayo Akinkugbe

Crossing waters: The aquatic sublime / Rose Thompson

Crossing waters: Where to from here? / Sarah Lea

Informed by ongoing research, this handsome exhibition catalogue published to accompany Entangled Pasts, 1768-now at the Royal Academy 3 February – 28 April 2024, features the work of artists connected with the Academy in an exploration of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging. Contemporary and historic works are brought together as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism, and how it may help set a course for the future. The life-size painted cut-out figures of Lubaina Himid’s installation Naming the Money; Hew Locke’s Armada, a flotilla of ‘votive boats’ recalling different periods and places; powerful paintings, photographs, films, sculptures, drawings and prints by Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, John Akomfrah, Isaac Julien, El Anatsui, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Mohini Chandra and Betye Saar; and historical works by artists such as Joshua Reynolds, J. M. W. Turner and John Singleton Copley create connections across time that examine questions of power, representation and history.