| Description | Discussion of Himid's series 'Revenge : masque in five tableaux', first exhibited at Rochdale Art Gallery in 1992, and Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1993.
Typescript annotated by Himid, with doodle; she mentions her B.A. dissertation on Inigo Jones' 17th century masques, Wimbledon School of Art (1976).
Mentions Zanzibar, Jane Beckett & Deborah Cherry, Cleopatra, Ancient Egypt, Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette (1853), Orientalism, Artemisia Gentileschi's 'Judith' paintings, Christopher Columbus, Paris, British Empire, Harold Bloom, Africa, Europe; College Art Association Conference, Seattle (February 1993), and Feminist Arts and Histories Network Conference (September 1993); Himid's works 'Five', Leeds Art Gallery, 'Between the two my heart is balanced' (1991; T06947), and 'No maps' (1984); Mary Cassatt, Lee Krasner, Mary Kelly; the Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition 'Face à l'Histoire, 1933-1996 : l'artiste moderne face à l'évènement historique. Engagement, Témoignage, Vision' (19 December 1996-7 April 1997); contemporary British art, Italy, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frederic Jameson, postmodernism, African diaspora, Édouard Manet; Pablo Picasso's painting 'Guernica' (1937); Renaissance; Theodor Adorno, modernism, Cold War, Oceania, Jean Fisher, Black women artists in Britain, Gilane Tawadros, Jürgen Habermas, Sonia Boyce, Sutapa Biswas, Nefertiti Bust, Henri Matisse; James Tissot's paintings 'The Thames' (1876), Wakefield City Art Gallery, and 'Portsmouth Dockyard'; Edgar Degas, James McNeill Whistler, Belgian painter Alfred Stevens, Victorian art, Claude Monet, Roland Barthes, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Union Jack, London, Britannia, J. M. W. Turner, Napoleonic era, Royal Navy, Martin Heidegger; East India Company and Simla Hills, India; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jill Morgan, Post-Impressionism, Paul Gauguin, Fauvism, Die Brücke, Polynesia; Sheri Benstock's book 'Women of the Left Bank, 1900-1940' (1987); Andrea Weiss' film 'Paris was a woman' (1996); the 'New Woman', Christopher Miller; African-American dancer and singer Josephine Baker; negrophilia; photographs of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas by Man Ray and Cecil Beaton; Marjorie Gerber, Monique Wittig, lesbianism; the Hayward Gallery exhibitions 'Hayward annual' (1978) and 'Georgia O'Keeffe : American and modern' (1993); feminism; Hélène Cixous, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, Edmonia Lewis' sculptures 'Hagar in the Wilderness' (1868), Frederick Douglass Institute, Washington D.C., and 'Death of Cleopatra' (1876); Eleanor Tufts, slavery, abolitionism, Neoclassicism, Chicago, Margaret Foley; Anne Whitney's sculpture 'Africa'; Faith Ringgold’s series ‘The French collection’ (1991); Leonardo da Vinci’s painting ‘Mona Lisa’; Himid’s exhibition ‘Columbus drowning’ (1992); Baroque art, Mieke Bal; Julia Kristeva’s book ‘Strangers to ourselves’ (1988); Marilyn Frey, racism; Sigmund Freud’s work ‘Mourning and melancholia’ (1917); Melanie Klein’s paper ‘Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states’; Hanna Segal, Marcel Proust; Augusta Savage’s sculpture ‘Life every voice and sing’ (1939); Middle Passage; Holocaust, Jewish people, Romani people, LGBTQIA+; Primo Levi’s book ‘The drowned and the saved’ (1986); Chandra Mohanty, Claude Lévi-Strauss; Israeli artist and psychoanalyst Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger; Hebrew Bible, Judaism, Communism, migration and immigration; Tom Lehrer’s song ‘National Brotherhood Week’ (1964); fascism, and Stalinism. |