Record

Collection NameHimid, Lubaina
RefNoTGA 202310/27/4
LevelItem
TitleHandwritten draft letter from Lubaina Himid to art historian Griselda Pollock
Date[c 1992]
Extent1 item; 3 pages
Access StatusOPEN
LocationManuscript collection
DescriptionHimid discusses her series 'Revenge : masque in five tableaux', first exhibited at Rochdale Art Gallery in 1992.

Probably written in response to draft of '"Revenge" : Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories', chapter 7 of Pollock's book 'Differencing the canon : feminist desire and the writing of art’s histories', London & New York : Routledge (1999) (TGA 202310/27/5).

Mentions her return from a recent trip to Zanzibar with Maud Sulter; Inigo Jones' 17th century masques (the subject of her B.A. dissertation in 1976); 'Africaness' and modernism; and contemporary art criticism.
FormatDocument - correspondence
LanguageEnglish
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