ELSEWHERE Issue 2, May 2014
The international journal of self-taught and outsider art
The international journal of self-taught and outsider art
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Paperback: $15.00 > $6.00 delivery anywhere in Australia From A Self-Taught Knowledge System: Joe Minter's "African Village in America" as a Syncretic Epistemology Laura Bickford In Birmingham, Alabama, self-identified "Peacemaker" Joe Minter transformed his one-acre backyard into a living museum dedicated to the forgotten stories and participants of the Civil Rights Movement.* Composed of hundreds of found-object assemblages, made from material collected around the city, Minter's "African Village in America" recounts the entire history of the African presence in the United States, starting from slavery and continuing to contemporary watersheds such as the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti. Minter, a long-time resident of Birmingham, has been witness to the often-volatile race relations of the Southern United States. Present at Ingram Park in 1973 when police unleashed horses and dogs on Black protestors, Minter's views on our radicalised society have often been formed by violence and oppression. However, "African Village in America," is most characterised by Minter's desire that it bring peace, forge unity, and invite the presence of God into people's lives. * Joe Minter in "Joe Minter" in William Arnett, Lowery Sims, Jane Livingston, and Paul Arnett, Souls Grown Deep Volume 2: African American Vernacular Art, (Atlanta: Tinwood Books Specifications Format: Softcover, 96 pages Dimensions: 280mm (H) x 215mm (W) Publication date: May 2014 Publisher: STOARC Publication city/country: Sydney, Australia |
Inside ELSEWHERE Issue 2
- Editorial - Colin Rhodes
- Lonnie Holley Interview with Bernard L. Herman at Whole Foods, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (8 September 2013), following Holley's performances at the Hopscotch Music Festival (September 5-7, 2013) in Raleigh, North Carolina - Bernard L. Herman
- Vivam!: The Divine Intersexuality of Henry Darger's Vivian Girls - Leisa Rundquist
- A Self-Taught Knowledge System: Joe Minter's "African Village in America" as a Syncretic Epistemology - Laura Bickford
- Robert Prudhoe's Temple of 'Boingaology' - Chris James
- Reimagining the Machine: Autobiography and History in Charles Vermeulen's Farm Equipment Installation - Kenneth Scambray
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