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02496aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 C370BE4E68DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200318010024 008 190325t20192019ohua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780300246872 020 $a 0300246870 035 $a (OCoLC)1090438741 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YUS $d OCLCO $d COO $d ZCU $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a N7380 $b .N94 2019 082 04 $a 709.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C., $e author. 245 10 $a Second careers : $b two tributaries in African art / $c Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi. 264 1 $a Cleveland, OH : $b Yale University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 128 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 31 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121) and index. 520 8 $a An important investigation of the complicated relationship between canonical African art and the practices of contemporary African artists. Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformulating the continent's artistic traditions to respond to the contemporary landscape. Historically, African art objects such as masks and sculptures were composed of a matrix of materials that included medicine bundles, raffia assemblage, hides, and metal, some or all of which were repurposed: a "second career" for the materials. This practice of transforming materials has wider cultural resonance in Africa today, where electronics, discarded engines, and rubber tires are incorporated by artisans into domestic and personal items. The contemporary African artists featured here-El Anatsui (Ghana), Nnenna Okore (Nigeria), Zohra Opoku (Ghana), Elias Sime (Ethiopia), Tahir Carl Karmali (Kenya), and Goncalo Mabunda (Mozambique)-reflect these dual traditions, reviving conceptual elements of historical African art by creating work that responds to the evolution of Africa's artistic traditions. 650 0 $a Art, African $v Exhibitions. 650 7 $a Art, African. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815861 655 7 $a Exhibition catalogs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424028 710 2 $a Cleveland Museum of Art, $e host institution. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317032029.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103021000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C370BE4E68DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search