Black Artists in British Art

Eddie Chambers is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he teaches the art history of the African Diaspora. He gained his Ph.D. from Goldsmith's College, University of London and between 2003 and 2009 he was a Visiting Professor, Art History, at Emory University, Atlanta. Since the early 1980s Eddie Chambers has been organizing and curating artists' exhibitions in Britain and a range of other countries, including the US, Australia and Jamaica.

• Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the PresentChaptersForeword: Celebrating Nelson's ShipsIntroduction: Some Problems with History and its Treatment of Black-British Artists.Chapter One: The Pioneering Generation of Caribbean ArtistsChapter Two: Early Contributions by South Asian ArtistsChapter Three: The Significance of the 1970s Chapter Four: Uzo Egonu and Contemporary African Art in BritainChapter Five: The Earliest Black-British PractitionersChapter Six: South Asian Stories Chapter Seven: The 'Black Art' Generation and the 1980sChapter Eight: The Rise and Fall of The Black-Art GalleryChapter Nine: The Emergence of Black Women Artists: Arguments and OpinionsChapter Ten: Sonia Boyce and Other Black Women Artists Chapter Eleven: Substantial Sculpture: The work of Sokari Douglas Camp, Veronica Ryan, and Permindar Kaur.Chapter Twelve: Black Artists of the 1990s GenerationChapter Thirteen: The Triumphant Triumvirate: Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, and Steve McQueen.Epilogue: The New Generation