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Reading the contemporary : African art from theory to the marketplace / edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor.

Title
Reading the contemporary : African art from theory to the marketplace / edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor.
Publication
London, England : Institute of International Visual Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Oguibe, Olu, 1964-
  • Enwezor, Okwui
Description
432 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Subject
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Africa
  • Art, African
  • Art, Black > Africa
  • Arts, African > 20th century
  • Arts, Black > Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Arts, African > Africa, Sub-Saharan > 20th century
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Art, identity, boundaries : postmodernism and contemporary African art / Olu Oguibe -- 'Reprendre' : enunciations and strategies in contemporary African arts / V.Y. Mudimbe -- The postcolonial and the postmodern / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Bourdieu out of Europe? / Everlyn Nicodemus -- African art and authenticity : a text with a shadow / Sidney Kasfir -- In vogue, or the flavour of the month : the new way to wear black / John Picton -- Negritude : between mask and flag -- Senegalese cultural ideology and the Ecole de Dakar / Ima Ebong -- The quest for a Nigerian art : or a story of art from Zaria to Nsukka / Chika Okeke -- New developments in Black African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike -- The modernist experience in African art : visual expressions of the self and cross-cultural aesthetics / Salah Hassan -- Talk of the town : Seydou Keïta / Manthia Diawara -- Between worlds : postmodernism and African artists in the western metropolis / Okwui Enwezor -- Traces of ecstasy / Rotimi Fani-Kayode -- Eros & Diaspora / Kobena Mercer -- Meaning in transit : framing the works of Boutros, Dridi, Ennadre, Gasteli and Naji / Octavio Zaya -- Fusion : hot or cold? / Thomas McEvilley -- In the 'heart of darkness' / Olu Oguibe -- The identity question : focus on Black South African expression / David Koloane -- Inversion of the printed image : Namibian perspectives of John Ndevasia Muafangejo / Margo Timm -- About face : aspects of art history and identity in South African visual culture / Colin Richards -- Reframing the Black subject : ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation / Okwui Enwezor -- The carapace that failed : Ousmane Sembene's 'Xala' (1974) / Laura Mulvey.
ISBN
0262650517
LCCN
^^^99060346^
OCLC
  • 42874239
  • SCSB-12290443
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library