A companion to modern African Art

A companion to modern African Art / edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visona.

Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Salami, Gitti, Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Blackwell companions to art history ; 6.
Subjects:
1800-2099
Geschichte 1900-2013.
Art, African > 20th century.
Art, African > 19th century.
Art, African > 21st century.
Art, African
Kunst
Afrika
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Africa has always been modern"
  • Art in cosmopolitan Africa
  • Modernities and cross-cultural encounters in arts of the early twentieth century
  • Colonialism, modernism, and art in independent nations
  • Perspectives on arts of the African Diaspora
  • Syntheses in art of the late twentieth century
  • Primitivism as erasure
  • Local expression and global modernity

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