The Significance of Magazine Publishing for Black British Art since 1950

这项研究的目的是分析1960年至2000年期间在英国制作的视觉艺术杂志，这些杂志专门关注黑人艺术家的作品，其编辑和出版过程主要由有色人种控制。通过将期刊本身作为研究对象，我旨在批判性地审视独立出版在促进关于视觉艺术如何与种族、阶级、性别、性和殖民主义遗产问题交叉的新的辩论、立场和理解方面的作用。我会争辩说，这些杂志与英国黑人艺术运动的继承是共同构成的，在几个案例中为艺术实践的出现提供了条件。通过一起阅读这些作品和杂志，我们可以对英国黑人文化生产的更广泛的生态有更丰富的了解。在当前重新参与去殖民化和重新审视以前被边缘化的历史的背景下，这项研究具有重大的文化紧迫性。为了理解不断变化的英国黑人艺术史学，我将进行基于文件的分析，关注杂志的属性，如它们的系列性、多重作者、设计、准文本特征以及它们与受众的对话关系。通过将不同印刷文化中的杂志联系起来，包括艺术家出版物、黑人激进出版和主流艺术媒体，我将评估它们在重新绘制和重新审视英国艺术史方面的重要性。这些杂志还具有重要的社会、文化和政治意义，例如，这些杂志提供了关于英国第一个黑人作家和艺术家集体的独特记录，或关于英国穆斯林女同性恋者身份的最早自传式描述之一。这项研究将揭示围绕代表政治的更大规模的文化斗争，并探索印刷媒体在多大程度上提供了一个关键的争论场所。

The aim of the research is to analyse visual arts magazines produced in the UK between 1960 and 2000 which specificallyattend to the work of Black artists and for which the editorial and publishing process was controlled primarily by people ofcolour. By taking the periodicals as the object of study in their own right, I aim to critically examine the role of independentpublishing as fostering new debates, positions and understandings of how visual arts intersect with issues of race, class,gender, sexuality and the legacies of colonialism. I will argue that these magazines were co-constitutive with a successionof Black British art movements, in several cases providing the conditions for artistic practices to emerge. By reading theartworks and magazines together, we can gain a richer understanding of the broader ecology of Black British culturalproduction. In the current context of renewed engagement with decolonisation and re-examining previously marginalisedhistories, this research has significant cultural urgency.To understand the changing historiography of Black British art, I will produce a documents-based analysis, which isattentive to properties of magazines such as their seriality, multiple authorship, design, para-textual features and theirdialogic relationship with audiences. By contextualising the magazines within varied print cultures including artists'publications, Black radical publishing and the mainstream art press, I will evaluate their importance in remapping and'reworlding' British art history. The magazines are also of great social, cultural and political importance, for exampleproviding unique documentation of the first Black British collective of writers and artists or one of the earliestautobiographical accounts of British Muslim lesbian identity. The research will illuminate larger cultural struggles over thepolitics of representation and the explore the extent to which print media provide a key site of contestation.