Our first episode of bip[art]isan was inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis and the role boats have played in moving bodies, often bringing either salvation or destruction. We discuss the imagery of such vessels across time and space, focusing on diverse examples from a sixteenth-century Persian manuscript photoshopped to reflect twenty-first-century problems, J. M. W. Turner's 1840
The Slave Ship,
and even a 2008 incisive African critique of an eighteenth-century slave ship.
Humans of New York, (Kos, Greece), September 27. 2015
Shahpour Pouyan, God Sets the Course for the Ship, and Not the Captain. Photograph: Shahpour Pouyan/Lawrie Shabibi/Copperfield Gallery
J. M. W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840
Diagram of the 'Brookes' Slave Ship, ca. 1801, British Library
Viktor Ekpuk, Slave Narrative, 2008, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
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