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Title Statement A companion to modern African art
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Formatted Contents Note 1. Writing African Modernism into Art History / Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà --?pt. II "Africa Has Always Been Modern" -- 2. Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Art s in Africa / Henry John Drewal -- pt. III Art in Cosmopolitan Africa: The Nineteenth Century --?3. Loango Coast Ivories and the Legacies of Afro-Portuguese Art s / Nichole N. Bridges --?4. Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices: From Modern to Vernacular Photography in West and Central Africa (1850-1980) / Christraud M. Geary -- 5. At Home in the World: Portrait Photography and Swahili Mercantile Aesthetics / Prita Meier -- 6. African Reimaginations: Presence, Absence, and New Way Architecture / Ikem Stanley Okoye --?pt. IV Modernities and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Art s of the Early Twentieth Century --?7. "One of the Best Tools for Learning": Rethinking the Role of 'Abduh's Fatwa in Egyptian Art History / Dina A. Ramadan -- 8. Congolese and Belgian Appropriations of the Colonial Era: The Commissioned Work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and Its Reception / Kathrin Langenohl -- 9. Warriors in Top Hats: Images of Modernity and Military Power on West African Coasts / Monica Blackmun Visonà --?pt. V Colonialism, Modernism, and Art in Independent Nations -- 10. Algerian Painters as Pioneers of Modernism / Mary Vogl --?11. Kofi Antubam, 1922-1964: A Modern Ghanaian Art ist, Educator, and Writer / Atta Kwami -- 12. Patron and Art ist in the Shaping of Zimbabwean Art / Elizabeth Morton --?13. "Being Modern": Identity Debates and Makerere's Art School in the 1960s / Sunanda K. Sanyal -- 14. The École des Art s and Exhibitionary Platforms in Postindependence Senegal / Joanna Grabski -- 15. From Iconoclasm to Heritage: The Osogbo Art Movement and the Dynamics of Modernism in Nigeria / Peter Probst. 16. Modernism and Modernity in African Art / John Picton -- 17. A Century of Painting in the Congo: Image, Memory, Experience, and Knowledge / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- pt. VI Perspectives on Art s of the African Diaspora -- 18. Visual Expressivity in the Art of the Black Diaspora: Conjunctures and Disjunctures / dele jegede -- pt. VII Syntheses in Art of the Late Twentieth Century -- 19. Art and Social Dynamics in Côte d'lvoire: The Position of Vohou-Vohou / Yacouba Konaté -- 20. Contemporary Contradictions: Bronzecasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin / Barbara Winston Blackmun -- 21. Puppets as Witnesses and Perpetrators in Ubu and the Truth Commission / Peter Ukpokodu -- 22. Moroccan Art Museums and Memories of Modernity / Katarzyna Pieprzak -- pt. VIII Primitivism as Erasure -- 23. The Enduring Power of Primitivism: Showcasing "the Other" in Twenty-First-Century France / Sally Price -- pt. IX Local Expression and Global Modernity: African Art of the Twenty-First Century -- 24. Zwelethu Mthethwa's "Postdocumentary" Portraiture: Views from South Africa and Abroad / Pamela Allara --?25. Creative Diffusion: African Intersections in the Biennale Network / Kinsey Katchka --?26. Lacuna: Uganda in a Globalizing Cultural Field / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- 27. Painted Visions under Rebel Domination: A Cultural Center and Political Imagination in Northern Côte d'lvoire / Till Förster -- 28. Postindependence Architecture through North Korean Modes: Namibian Commissions of the Mansudae Overseas Project / Meghan L.E. Kirkwood -- 29. Concrete Aspirations: Modern Art at the Roundabout in Ugep / Gitti Salami.
Summary, etc "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 art ists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa. Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material. Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity"
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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 of new technologies and globalization.
A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art