[Commlist] New book: Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture

We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press 
Books, which we hope will be of interest.

*Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture***

Detour to the Imaginary

*Stuart Hall *

*Edited by Gilane Tawadros***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478030331/selected-writings-on-visual-arts-and-culture/_*

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/“This collection corrects the widespread misperception that Stuart 
Hall’s late-career art writings were a mere add-on to the heavy lifting 
accomplished by his 1970s work on Marxism and sociology. Gilane 
Tawadros’s panoramic selection reveals how extensively Hall turned his 
attention to art, photography, film, museums, and architecture to 
examine questions of diaspora, identity, and globalization. This volume 
is of enormous significance.”/- Kobena Mercer, author of /Travel & See: 
Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s./

Stuart Hall’s work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to 
readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long 
commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together 
Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles two dozen of Hall’s 
essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, 
film, and photography. Providing rare insights into Hall’s engagement 
with the “radically different” intellectual and aesthetic space of the 
visual imaginary, these works articulate the importance of the visual as 
a site of contestation at the same time as it is a space in which Black 
artists and filmmakers reframe questions about diaspora, identity, and 
globalization. /Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture 
/demonstrates the breadth and range of Hall’s thinking on art, film, 
photography, archives, and museums. In so doing, it enables us to arrive 
at radical and innovative ways of understanding the world.

*Stuart Hall*(1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and influential 
scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. Hall taught at the 
University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding 
editor of /New Left Review/, and was the author of /Cultural Studies 
1983: A Theoretical History, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two 
Islands/, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

*Gilane Tawadros*is Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, Chair of the 
Stuart Hall Foundation, and author of /The Sphinx Contemplating 
Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference/.



*Duke University Press Books | Stuart Hall: Selected Writings | August 
2024 | 392pp | 9781478030331 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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