Between Fiction and Reality. Landscape and Romanticism in the Afrodiasporic Video Art

Authors

  • Carla Ana Hayes Mayoral Universidad de Málaga Spain

Keywords:

Diaspora, Fiction, Landscape, Afrodescendant, Romanticism, History, Identity

Abstract

 

This paper focuses on how three contemporary artists (John Akomfrah, Isaac Julien and Mónica de Miranda) come up with ways of dealing with the African diaspora using landscape, romantic aesthetics and ideals from the 19th century in Europe. Some of their proposals present lush and savage landscapes as in romantic artworks, but they subvert the representation through a hybrid audiovisual language that works with the in-betweenness of fiction and reality to bring out some colonial histories omitted from the hegemonic European narrative. This study focuses on the visualization of several films as main source, comparing their visual aspects and the influence of the audiovisual medium to the keys of Romanticism, to conclude that Romanticism means a (missing) link for afrodescendant artists to deal with diaspora.

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Published

2023-11-28

How to Cite

Hayes Mayoral, C. A. (2023). Between Fiction and Reality. Landscape and Romanticism in the Afrodiasporic Video Art. Boletín De Arte, (44), 217–230. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/boletin-de-arte/article/view/16180

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