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Title:A companion to modern African Art
Editors:Salami, GittiISNI
Visonà, Monica BlackmunISNI
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 The volume includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material and presents new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity.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]
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