M/E/A/N/I/N/G Digital Reissue With Work By Danny Tisdale

We are pleased to announce the digital reissue of all of the original twenty hard copy issues of the journal, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, which were published from 1986-1996, on Jacket2 Reissues, an archival platform for magazines committed to poetry and poetics.

Danny Tisdale “Colonial House” Art Books And More

Here are artifacts and hand drawn books from Danny Tisdale’s appearance on PBS’s reality TV show Colonial House in 2004.

The show was televised in 2004 from January to August with Danny as a free man who traveled from England in 1628 to Machias, Maine in the New World with a crew of 13 others from all over the USA and the world (England, Texas, Seattle, New York,  etc.,).

Danny Tisdale In Radical Presence Catalogue

Radical Presence chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years.

DT Pick: “Welcome to the Jungle” By Kobena Mercer with Danny Tisdale

Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and “race” during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity.

Danny Tisdale in the ‘Multiple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection’ of the Center for Book Arts

Since 2008, the Center for Book Arts has been involved in a Collections Initiative, which includes the in-depth cataloguing and preservation of our extensive collection of artist books, prints, catalogues, and ephemera.