Africa: architecture, culture identity

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Title:	Africa: architecture, culture identity
Editors:	Holm, Michael Juul Kallehauge, Mette Marie
Year:	2015
Pages:	264
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Humlebæk
Publisher:	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN:	9788792877451
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	architecture urban development towns visual arts exhibition catalogues (form)
Abstract:	In Western culture Africa has become synonymous with a potpourri of exotic ingredients and anxieties: sun, rhythm, intuition, bodily liberation, grand landscapes, wild animals - and on the other hand disease, crime, war, failed states, shantytowns, famine, a flood of refugees. This book - published in connection with the Africa exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - attempts to challenge the stereotypes. It speaks in both short and extended form of new architecture and urban development projects from various parts of Africa south of the Sahara, and artworks from the same region appear as independent contributions to the overall experience. Generously illustrated, Africa includes essays by among others the curators of the exhibition, Kjeld Kjeldsen and Mathias Ussing Seeberg, expert consultant Morten Nielsen, and Achille Mbembe, Edgar Pieterse, Antoni Scholtens Folkers, Daan Roggeveen, Michiel Hulshof, Filip de Boeck, and Nnamdi Elleh. [Book abstract, edited]