Contents

List of Illustrations

Note

Acknowledgements

Foreword:

Celebrating Nelson’s Ships

Introduction: 

Some Problems with History and its Treatment of Black-British Artists.

Chapter 1:

The Pioneering Generation of Caribbean Artists

Chapter 2:

Early Contributions by South Asian Artists

Chapter 3:

The Significance of the 1970s

Chapter 4:

Uzo Egonu and Contemporary African Art in Britain

Chapter 5:

The Earliest Black-British Practitioners

Chapter 6:

South Asian Stories

Chapter 7:

The ‘Black Art’ Generation and the 1980s

Chapter 8:

The Rise and Fall of The Black-Art Gallery

Chapter 9:

The Emergence of Black Women Artists: Arguments and Opinions

Chapter 10:

Sonia Boyce and Other Black Women Artists

Chapter 11:

Substantial Sculpture: The work of Sokari Douglas Camp, Veronica Ryan, and Permindar Kaur.

Chapter 12:

Black Artists of the 1990s Generation

Chapter 13:

The Triumphant Triumvirate: Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, and Steve McQueen.

Epilogue:

The New Generation

Notes

Bibliography