Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture Araeen Rasheed
Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture Araeen Rasheed Facsimile compilation of the late-'70s journal on diasporic and colonial histories that paved the way for the…
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Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture Araeen Rasheed
Facsimile compilation of the late-'70s journal on diasporic and colonial histories that paved the way for the British Black Arts MovementPublished in three issues between 1978 and 1979, Black Phoenix: Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture in the Third World (the subtitle was changed to Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture for its second and third issues) stands as a key document of its time. More than a decade after '60s liberation movements and the historic Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences that called for social and political alignment and solidarity to dismantle Western imperialism and (neo)colonialism, Black Phoenix issued a rallying call for the formation of a Third World, liberatory arts and culture movement on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979.Based in the UK, and both international and