A slideshow connected to a lecture on twentieth-century artists whose work deals with issues of race and identity available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Ellen Caldwell.
33. Wilson, Modes of Transport 1770–1910 in Mining the Museum, 1992.
34. Wilson, Cabinet Making 1820–1910,
1992.
Shonibare, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Without Their Heads, 1998.
35. “The decolonial option is an option and, as such, it makes evident
that there is no right or natural way to define what museums shall
do. Museums should offer spaces for many kinds of interpretive
activity (dialoguing or contesting each other). The decolonial
option displaces the ‘spectacle’ and ‘performance’ of museum
exhibits and installations and brings to the foreground what
‘spectacle’ and ‘performance’ hides: coloniality, that is, the
darker side of modernity of which museums are a paramount
institution.”
— Walter Mignolo, “Museums in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity:
Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum (1992).”