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The Uses Of Autobiography
Editor: Julia Swindells | Reference: P3487 | ISBN: 978-0748403663 | Type: Publication
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
activism
adult learning
Africa
Alice James
anthropology
Ato Quayson
authorship
Brian Ridgers
censorship
Cheryl-Ann Michael
Claire MacDonald
Clare Bake
community
curating
David Whitley
ethnicity
feminism
feminist
gender
genre
Gillie Bolton
history
iconography
identity
Jane Unsworth
Janet Bottoms
Janet Frame
Laura Marcus
literature
Margaretta Jolly
Maroula Joannou
memory
militancy
Morag Styles
Nadia Valman
Nelson Mandela
Pam Hirsch
peace
performance art
personal
politics
public
public sphere
race
representation
Ruth A Symes
Sarah Meer
self
sentimentality
slavery
social change
social context
suffragette
testimony
Victorian
war
Winnie Mandela
Wole Soyinka
women
World War II
writing
SHIFTwork: Cathedral of Joy
Artist/Author: Andre Stitt and Fritz Welch | Reference: P2697 | ISBN: 9-730615-303869 | Type: Publication
SHIFTwork is the collective name for a series of commissioned performances which focused on the physical act and process of painting as a form of performance art. This catalogue documents the first collaboration, ‘Cathedral of Joy’, occurred with New York artist Fritz Welsh on a series of paintings in full view of the public whereby the gallery became a public studio revealing in real time and on continuous webcam transmission what is ordinarily the private practice of painting.
