BLACK PHOENIX: Contemporary Art & Culture Perspectives from the Third World - Perfect for Art Collectors, Cultural Studies & Academic Research

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197819793Black Phoenix: Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture in the Third World23Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture

1960101979Margaret ThatcherBlack Phoenix

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Black Audio Film CollectiveStuart Hall1982Black Phoenix

Rasheed AraaenMahmood JamalGuy BrettKenneth Coutts-SmithAriel DorfmanEduardo GaleanoNN. KileleBabatunde LawalDavid MedallaAyyub MalikSusil SirivardanaChris Wanjala

This publication is a compilation of all three issues of the journal Black Phoenix published as a single volume. Edited and published by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal between 1978 and 1979 in the United Kingdom, Black Phoenix remains a key and radical document of transnational solidarity and cultural production in the visual arts, literature, activism, and beyond.

More than a decade after the liberation movements of the 1960s and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences, which called for social and political alignment and solidarity among the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in order to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, Black Phoenix issued a rallying cry for the formation of a liberatory arts and culture movement throughout the Third World. International in scope, Black Phoenix positioned diasporic and colonial histories at the center of an evolving anti-racist and anti-imperialist consciousness in late 1970s Britain and beyond—one that would yield complex and nuanced discourses of race, class, and postcolonial theory in the decade that followed. Black Phoenix proposed a horizon for Blackness that transcended racial binaries, across the Third World and the West.

Contributors include art critics, scholars, artists, poets, and writers, including Rasheed Araeen (Pakistan) and Mahmood Jamal (Pakistan), Guy Brett (United Kingdom), Kenneth Coutts-Smith (United Kingdom), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), N. Kilele (Tanzania), Babatunde Lawal (Nigeria), David Medalla (Philippines), Ayyub Malik (Pakistan), Susil Siriwardena (Sri Lanka), and Chris Wanjala (Kenya).