
Celeste-Marie Bernier
et al.
Published online:
17 September 2020
Published in print:
31 December 2019
Online ISBN:
9781789629903
Print ISBN:
9781789620856
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1 ‘Humour, fury, celebration and optimism’: A Politics of Protest and Cut-Out Men (1981–85)
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57–70
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Published:December 2019
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Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and others, '‘Humour, fury, celebration and optimism’: A Politics of Protest and Cut-Out Men (1981–85)', Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid, Liverpool Studies in International Slavery LUP (Liverpool , 2019; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online, 17 Sept. 2020), https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620856.003.0003, accessed 8 May 2025.
Abstract
examines the ways in which Himid works to create radically revised and rewritten visual and textual histories, which then become serviceable in contemporary Black freedom struggles worldwide. As argued here, Himid’s bodies of work provide alternative blueprints of artistry and activism. No more hard-hitting confirmation of Himid’s determination to combine ‘humour, fury, celebration, and optimism’ in order to ‘challenge the order of things’ and ‘call in question those in power and make them answerable’ can be found than her earliest series, Cut-Out Men, which she created between 1981 and 1985, and which is the focus of this chapter.
Keywords:
Lubaina Himid, Slavery, Memory, Freedom, the Body, Representation, Trauma, violence, activism, agency, resistance, rebellion, revolution, radicalism
Subject
African American History
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