Publication
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966-1996
- Year
- 1997
- Publisher
- The Franklin H Williams Caribbean Cultural Center, African Diaspora Institute, USA. ISBN: 09654082-0-5
- Authors / Editors
- Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd
Title: Transforming the crown: African, Asian & Caribbean artists in Britain 1966-1996.
Author: Beauchamp-Byrd, Mora J. (curator).
Published on the occasion of the exhibition which took place in New York at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and The Caribbean Cultural Center from October 1997 to March 1998. The exhibition was organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute in New York City, USA. It chronicles three decades of aesthetic production by artists of African and Asian descent in the United Kingdom who have influenced the art establishment in late-20th-century Britain. Essays by: Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd; Eddie Chambers; Okwui Enwezor; Kobena Mercer; Gilane Tawadros; Anne Walmsley; Deborah Willis; Judith Wilson. Artists include: Faisal Abdu'allah; Said Adrus; Ajamu; Henrietta Atooma Alele; Hassan Aliyu; Marcia Bennett; Sutapa Biswas; Sylbert Bolton; Sonia Boyce; Winston Branch; Vanley Burke; Chila Kumari Burman; Anthony Daley; Allan deSouza; Godfried Donkor; Sokari Douglas Camp; Nina Edge; Uzo Egonu; Rotimi Fani-Kayode; Denzil Forrester; Armet Francis; Joy Gregory; Sunil Gupta; Lubaina Himid; Bhajan Hunjan; Meena Jafarey; Gavin Jantjes; Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede; Claudette Johnson; Mumtaz, Karimjee; Rita Keegan; Fowokan George Kelly; Roshini Kempadoo; Juginder Lamba; Errol Lloyd; Jeni McKenzie; Althea McNish; David Medalla; Shaheen Merali; Bill Ming; Ronald Moody; Olu Oguibe; Eugene Palmer; Tony Phillips; Keith Piper; Ingrid Pollard; Franklyn Rodgers; Donald Rodney; Veronica Ryan; Lesley Sanderson; Maud Sulter; Folake Shoga; Yinka Shonibare; Gurminder Sikand; Danijah Tafari; Geraldine Walsh; Aubrey Williams.