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Title: | A companion to modern African Art |
Editors: | Salami, Gitti Visonà, Monica Blackmun |
Year: | 2013 |
Issue: | 6 |
Pages: | 626 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Blackwell companions to art history |
City of publisher: | Chichester |
Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell |
ISBN: | 9781444338379; 1118515056; 9781118515051; 1118515102; 9781118515105 |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | arts artists 1800-1899 1900-1999 2000-2009 2010-2019 |
Abstract: | This companion on African modern and modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present features 29 essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as explore broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. The volume includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material and presents new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity. It grounds the work of contemporary artists in the innovations and inventions of nineteenth and twentieth century Africa instead of situating them solely in non-African contexts. Among many other topics, the volume covers nineteenth centry photography in Liberia, influences of the Indian Ocean trade, early twentieth century debates on the arts in Egypt, pan-Africanism and art education in Ghana, Uganda and Senegal, revolutionary painting in Algeria and Côte d'Ivoire, and African patronage of North Korean design films. The book is divided into nine parts: I: Introduction; Part II: 'Africa has always been modern'. Part III: Art in cosmopolitan Africa: the nineteenth century; Part IV: Modernities and cross-cultural encounters in arts of the early twentieth century; Part V: Colonialism, modernism, and art in independent nations; Part VI: Perspectives on arts of the African diaspora; Part VII: Syntheses in art of the late twentieth century; Part VIII: Primitivism as erasure; Part IX: Local expression and global modernity: African art of the twenty-first century. [ASC Leiden abstract] |