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We face forward : art from West Africa today

Title: We face forward : art from West Africa today / Maria Balshaw, Natasha Howes, Alan Rice, Christine Eyene, Koyo Kouoh, Lubaina Himid.
Publication: Manchester : Manchester City Galleries : Whitworth Art Gallery, [2012]

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Description

128 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 30 cm

Summary

To celebrate the 2012 Olympics and offer a global welcome to the many visitors who will be visiting the UK and, in particular, the North West, Manchester's two main galleries will collaborate for the first time on a major exhibition of contemporary art drawn from countries in West Africa. Taking place across three locations, Manchester Art Gallery, Platt Hall (Gallery of Costume) and the Whitworth Art Gallery and Park, the exhibition will feature painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, video and sound work - from a wide range of practitioners whose work is internationally acclaimed, but relatively little seen in the UK. The title of the exhibition is taken from a speech by Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, made in 1960. Stating his resistance to cold war super powers, Nkrumah's full quote is 'We face neither East nor West: we face forward.' The exhibition takes its direction from Nkrumah's statement of independence, deriving inspiration from his sense of West African cultural dynamism. This publication will include biographies and colour images of all the artists in the exhibition plus the musicians, performers and other artists who are contributing to the public programme. It will feature an introductory essay by the curators of the exhibition and a number of contextual essays by curators and writers who specialise in African art.--Cornerhouse.

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Caption title.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Manchester City Galleries, the Whitworth Art Gallery and the Gallery of Costume, Manchester, England, June 2-Sept. 16, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Facing forward / Maria Balshaw with Bryony Bond, Mary Griffiths and Natasha Howes -- Tracing roots and routes and facing forward: African Atlantic residents and sojourners make their mark in the cottonopolis 1789-1949 / Alan Rice -- Embedded in the fabric / Christine Eyene -- Filling the voids: the emergence of independent contemporary art spaces in Africa / Koyo Kouoh -- We are us not other / Lubaina Himid.

Call Number

Sc F 15-273

ISBN

9780901673817
0901673811

LCCN

2012451494

OCLC

802330516

Title

We face forward : art from West Africa today / Maria Balshaw, Natasha Howes, Alan Rice, Christine Eyene, Koyo Kouoh, Lubaina Himid.

Imprint

Manchester : Manchester City Galleries : Whitworth Art Gallery, [2012]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Balshaw, Maria, writer of added text.

Howes, Natasha, writer of added text.

Rice, Alan J., 1960- writer of added text.

Eyene, Christine, writer of added text.

Kouoh, Koyo, writer of added text.

Himid, Lubaina, 1954- writer of added text.

Manchester Art Gallery, host institution.

Whitworth Art Gallery, host institution.

Gallery of Costume (Manchester, England), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 15-273

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