INSIDE THE INVISIBLE : memorialising slavery and freedom in the life.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Foreword by Marlene SmithIntroduction: Making Black Histories, Stories, and Memories VisibleI -- 'Gathering and Reusing' by Lubaina Himid Part 1: Visualising the 'Politics of Representation'Chapter 1: 'Humour, fury, celebration, and optimism': A Politics of Protest and Cut-Out Men (1981-85)Chapter 2: 'Rituals of reclaiming lost artefacts, refusing oppression and looking for ancestors' in Heroes and Heroines (1984)Chapter 3: 'They who document / paint the History hold the Power': Retelling, Reimagining and Recreating New Narratives of Black Heroism in Toussaint I (1988) and Toussaint II (2002)II -- 'Telling Invisible Stories' by Lubaina Himid Part 2: Resistance, Reclamation and Revolutionary History PaintingChapter 4: No more 'Silent Victims': Agency, Authority and Artistry in the 'Black Woman's Story' in Revenge (1992)Chapter 5: 'Lost hope, abandoned lives, decimated civilisations': Sites of 'Cultural Struggle' in Beach House (1995)Chapter 6: 'Safety and danger and how to tell the difference': Suffering, Struggle and Survival in Plan B (1999)III -- 'Return to the Operatic' by Lubaina Himid Part 3: Past, Present and Future Artistry, Activism and AgencyChapter 7: Imaging and Imagining 'Lost Lives of the Black Diaspora' in Venetian Maps (1997) Chapter 8: Reimaging and Reimagining an Absent-Presence in Cotton.com (2003)Chapter 9: 'The Slave Servant': Guerrilla Memorialisation and Multi-accented Performances in Naming the Money (2004)Chapter 10: 'Intervention, Mapping and Excavation': White Caricatures versus Black Dehumanisation in Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007)IV -- 'Painting over the British to reveal the British' by Lubaina Himid Part 4: Imagining 'the ghosts and the traces'Chapter 11: Tracing 'The living/ the dead/ the ancestors' in London and Paris Guidebooks (2009)Chapter 12: Mapping Space, Debating Place: Jelly Mould Pavilions (2010) and Official Sites and Sights of Slavery and MemoryChapter 13: 'The 'Ghost' of it all': Tragedy, Trauma and a 'People There and Not There' in Le Rodeur (2016)V -- 'Working on Paper' by Lubaina Himid 'It's All about Action': An Interview with Lubaina Himid by Hannah DurkinConclusion: 'Lives Depend on Accurate Histories'Bibliography.

Inside the Invisible investigates the life and works of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Lubaina Himid (CBE) to provide the first study of her lifelong determination to do justice to the hidden histories and untold stories of Black women, children, and men bought and sold into transatlantic slavery.

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