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Title:African cultures, visual arts, and the museum: sights/sites of creativity and conflict
Editor:Döring, Tobias
Year:2002
Periodical:Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society (ISSN 0932-9714)
Volume:25-26
Pages:288
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:museums
visual arts
External link:https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/25/1/mata.25.issue-1.xml
Abstract:This issue of 'Matatu' on African cultures, visual arts and the museum was published to coincide with the 2002 Documenta in Kassel, which was curated by the Nigerian Okwui Enwezor. Contributions: Introduction (Tobias Döring) - Comrades in arts and arms: stories of wars and watercolours from Eritrea (Christine Matzke) - Positioning the 'Other': reception and interpretation of contemporary black South African artists (Sabine Marschall) - The art of liberating voices: contemporary South African art exhibited in New York (Kristine Roome) - Shona sculpture and Documenta 11: reflections on exclusions (Jonathan Zilberg) - Globe-trotting and geo-ethnic entertainments: thoughts on a black artist in a British museum (Mark Stein) - Transgressing borders, shaping an art history: Rose Kirumira and Makerere's legacy (Sunanda K. Sanyal) - 'Intricate fabric': visual elements in the poetry of some Nsukka artists (Dominique Bediako) - Artlyrics: prefatory from an artist-poet (Barthosa Nkurumeh) - Visual tactics of contemporary Senegal (Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts) - Resisting hybridity: colonial and postcolonial youth in 'Ambiguous adventure' by Cheikh Hamidou Kane and 'L'appel des arčnes' by Aminata Sow Fall (Omar Sougou) - Future past: integrating orality into francophone West African film (Melissa Thackway) - Sights and sites of Dakar art: artists, artisans, tourists (Flora Veit-Wild). The issue also contains a interview with the South African artist Sue Williamson, creative writing by Barthosa Nkurumeh, and brief reports. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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