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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Part III Souvenirs of There draws upon the diver- gent environments and social scenes Rita has moved through from her arrival in London in the 1980s to the present illustrated with a selection of her archive. Hiroko Hagiwara recalls her first encounters with the Black British Art Movement as a visiting scholar from Japan. Shaheen Merali one of Rita’s fellow travellers from the Black Arts Movement paints a picture of their shared world in the 1980s and 90s where he recalls: “like so many in the following critical decades. Keegan’s life was dedicated to absorbing the daily pessimism of the English tradition and repurposing its existing qualities in search of art and life for an urban multivalent culture.” Lucy Davies describes Rita’s parallel life in the 1980s one marked by transgression and hedonism in Soho clubland. Matthew Harle recollects how thirty years later Rita’s clubbing connections metamorphosed into a new fanta- sy: the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Althea Greenan then sketches a history of the Women of Colour Index from her first meeting with Rita as a new volunteer at the Women Artists Slide Library where Rita was assembling the Index. Lauren Craig then brings the conversation back into the present asking how we curate the archive meditating on the symbolic presence of Rita’s ancestry. The book closes with a letter from Rita to her great-grand- mother Chestena reflecting upon their lineage of craft and dressmaking. (LL)