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“The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”:Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000 (2019)
Book Chapter
Elstob, I. (2019). “The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”:Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000. In L. Aje, & N. Gachon (Eds.), Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World. Routledge

This chapter examines artworks produced in the 1990s by Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon, and Lorna Simpson that combine historical and contemporary signifiers to visualize American history and its afterlives. Using literary and narratological models of... Read More about “The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”:Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000.

Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real' (2018)
Journal Article
Elstob, I. (2018). Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real'. Neo-Victorian Studies, 10(2), 129-158

This paper examines the contemporary British artist Mark Fairnington’s Mantidae series of paintings (2000) via the representational methods of his working process. Taking each stage of this process in turn, the paper examines key discourses... Read More about Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real'.