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Current research
On this page you will find a list of current or recent research that ties in with the site's main topic. You will find the title of the study, the institute where it is performed, the names of the collaborators and (if possible) contact information. Are you working on relevant research? Let us know! You can send an email with more information about your research to: simone.olsthoorn@idtv.nl.
Research by - 10/22/2009
The Center for Race and Culture (CRC) is an interactive Center that will research and investigate the dynamics of race, culture and it's relationship to visual art traditions and practice that will prepare students for leadership roles in the regional, national and international art world.
Research by George-McKinley Martin - 9/18/2009
The Black Art Project, with a focus on the visual arts, is an evolving multi-faceted series of collective projects that together will present solid, verifiable documentation of the contributions of Black art and artists in the overall body of American art.
Research by - 7/24/2009
The Arterial Network is an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and funding partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of the African arts and culture civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa. As a result, we invited Nicky du Plessis and Khadija El Bennaoui, in association with the Goree Institute, to do some research about the possibility of creating an African Fund for Arts and Culture.
Research by Agora Lumiere - 7/24/2009
The Arterial Network is an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and donor partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of the African arts and culture civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa. The Network invited Agora Lumiere, an organisation aiming at globally promoting African and African diaspora cinema in the world's film market, to research about the impact of the Arts on Africa's economies.
Research by Professor Suzanne Preston Blier - 7/24/2009
This project looks at the arts of the Bamun and its neighbors in the grasslands of Cameroon (West Africa) from the vantage of invention, appropriation, and retranslation of local and foreign artistic and cultural elements from 1700 to the present.
Research by Remy Jungerman and Gillion Grantsaan - 6/12/2009
In 2006 the Surinamese artists Remy Jungerman and Gillion Grantsaan developed the Wakaman Project. It is intended as a study of the position of artists of Surinam origin and will supplement the sketchy documentation on contemporary Surinamese art.
Research by Martin Klimke, Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov, Mischa Honeck - 5/14/2009
"Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries" embarked on an ambitious task: the conference retraced six centuries of mutual perception and contact between blacks of diverse origins (from the Americas, the Caribbean, the Byzantine Empire, Asia, Africa, or Europe) and people from the German-speaking parts of Europe.
Research by Anne Lafont - 3/16/2009
For the past few years, and as an extension of the work begun by the Menil Foundation on the image of blacks in western art, and inspired by the works of professor Helen Weston, Anne Lafont's research has focused on the representation of black populations around the time of the French Revolution.
Research by Elmer Kolfin - 3/9/2009
This research draws attention to the fact that throughout his career Rembrandt included Africans with surprising frequency in his drawings, etchings and paintings.
Research by Elmer Kolfin - 3/9/2009
This research studies the relation between the different artistic conventions of three major themes in early modern book illustration of black slavery and their different functions.
Research by Jean Michel Massing - 2/25/2009
He has completed the manuscript of his contribution to The Image of the Black in Western Art, of 13 chapters and c. 200,000 words, to be published in 2011 by Harvard University Press, and will spend another year checking The Image of the Black volume.
Research by Victoria and Albert Museum - 2/24/2009
A recent research initiative at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, which sought to uncover histories of the African diaspora embedded in the Museum's permanent collections.
Research by Elizabeth McGrath, Jean Michel Massing (ed.) - 2/5/2009
The conference "The iconography of slavery in Europe, 1500-1800" organised at the Warburg Institute in London in November 2007 (by Jean Michel Massing and Elizabeth McGrath) sought to look at the imagery of slavery in a wider artistic as well as geographical and historical context, by considering it in relation to European iconographic traditions, particularly from the period of the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. Plans to publish the proceedings are in progress at the Warburg Institute.
Research by Elizabeth McGrath - 2/5/2009
Much of the more academic literature on the subject has been concerned with ‘proving’ that celebrated medieval ‘black’ Madonnas were not originally black at all, but have become so over time, by deliberate intervention or accidental effects. Elizabeth McGrath is concerned with how such figures were perceived in the early modern period and how they were represented by artists.
Research by David Bindman - 1/26/2009
David Bindman's project for the fall semester is to complete with a third volume the series The Image of the Black in Western Art and to complete the editing and prepare the series for publication.
Research by Paul Kaplan - 1/26/2009
Working with Prof. David Bindman, the General Editor of vol. 3 of the Du Bois Institute’s "The Image of the Black in Western Art" series, Paul Kaplan will provide a comprehensive analysis of the image of black Africans in Italian art from c. 1490 to c. 1700.
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