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年间在英国出版的视觉艺术杂志，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，我的目标是批判性地审视独立出版在促进新的辩论、立场和理解视觉艺术如何与种族、阶级、性别、性取向和殖民主义遗产等问题交叉方面的作用。我认为这些杂志与一系列的英国黑人艺术运动是共同构成的，在一些情况下为艺术实践的出现提供了条件。通过一起阅读艺术作品和杂志，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。在当前重新参与非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。为了理解英国黑人艺术不断变化的史学，我将进行一种基于文献的分析，它关注杂志的属性，如它们的连载性、多作者、设计、超文本特征以及它们与观众的对话关系。通过将杂志置于不同的印刷文化背景下，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塑造英国艺术史方面的重要性。这些杂志也具有重要的社会、文化和政治意义，例如，提供了第一个英国黑人作家和艺术家集体的独特文献，或者是最早的英国穆斯林女同性恋身份的自传之一。这项研究将阐明在代表性政治上更大的文化斗争，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.