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Author:

Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.

Title:

Contemporary African art / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.

Publisher:

Thames and Hudson,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

224 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Art, African--20th century.
Art, African.
Art, Modern--20th century--Africa.
Art africain.
Art africain--20e siècle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-217) and index.

Contents:

New genres: inventing African popular culture -- Transforming the workshop -- Patrons and mediators -- Art and commodity -- The African artist: shifting identities in the postcolonial world -- The idea of a national culture: decolonizing African art -- Migration and displacement.

Summary:

This pioneering history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years, achieving an impressive balance between the critical reexamination of frequently discussed artists, groups and workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more recent material. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which the older, precolonial and colonial genres of African art were made. It is in this sense, and in the habits and attitudes of artists towards making art, rather than in any adherence to a particular style, medium, technique, or thematic range, that the art is recognizably African. Beginning in the early 1950s, the transformations in patronage, training and literacy brought about the birth of new genres which have been propelled onto a world stage. This critical history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years, achieving an impressive balance between the critical reexamination of frequently discussed artists, groups, and workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more recent material. Author has taught, curated, and carried out extensive filed research in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya, and has made briefer research trips to nine other African countries for her research.

Series:

The world of art

ISBN:

9780500203286 (pbk.)
0500203288 (pbk.)

LCCN:

99070939

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)