A Companion to Modern African Art
This fresh addition to Wiley-Blackwell's Companions to Art History series provides a much-needed perspective on the art and artists of Africa and prepares the ground for a fruitful debate on the nature of African Modernist art, often informed by a conscious engagement with European Modernism. The 29 essays that constitute this volume offer a wealth of analytical approaches, particularly those relating to African epistemologies and postcolonial theory. They cover nineteenth century photography in Liberia, early twentieth century debates on the arts in Egypt, pan-Africanism and art education in Ghana, Uganda and Senegal, revolutionary painting…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Visona, Monica Blackmun (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3837-9
- EAN: 9781444338379
- Produktnummer: 15266772
- Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 648 S.
- Masse: H26.1 cm x B18.4 cm x D3.6 cm 1'398 g
- Gewicht: 1398
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Monica Blackmun Visonà is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Visual Studies of the University of Kentucky, USA, where she teaches courses on African art and architecture, and art historical methods. The principle author of A History of Art in Africa (2000, 2008), she has also published Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire (2010), and contributed articles to Art Bulletin and African Arts. She is currently researching the artists of the western Akan peoples for a museum exhibition.Gitti Salami is Associate Professor of World Art History at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA. In a decade of extensive field research in south-eastern Nigeria she has published numerous articles on Yakurr culture in African Arts and Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. She has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship and a grant from the West African Research Association (WARA), and has held resident fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of East Anglia, UK. A forthcoming monograph examines contemporary Yakurr art genres from a postcolonial theoretical standpoint.
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