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Art world city : the creative economy of artists and urban life in Dakar

Title
Art world city : the creative economy of artists and urban life in Dakar / Joanna Grabski.
Author
Grabski, Joanna
Publication
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.

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Description
xiii, 307 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
'Art World City' focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why they produce and exhibit their work and how they make an art scene and transact with art world mediators such as curators, journalists, critics, art lovers, and collectors from near and far. Grabski shows that Dakar-based artists participate in a platform that has a global reach. They extend Dakar's creative economy and the city's urban vibe into an "art world city."
Series Statement
African expressive cultures
Uniform Title
African expressive cultures.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Dakar's art world city -- Making the city's scene: visibility, exhibition culture, and mediatization -- Mapping the Dak'art Biennale in Dakar -- A place from which to speak: artists' studios as infrastructure of opportunity -- From street to studio: sourcing the materials for art from urban life -- Picturing the city -- Market space and urban space: the business of selling art in the city -- Epilogue. Reflections on Dakar's art world city: infrastructures, vision-oriented subjectivities, and implications.
Call Number
Sc E 19-613
ISBN
  • 9780253026057
  • 0253026059
LCCN
2017003819
OCLC
958479341
Author
Grabski, Joanna, author.
Title
Art world city : the creative economy of artists and urban life in Dakar / Joanna Grabski.
Publisher
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Research Call Number
Sc E 19-613
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