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Who knows tomorrow

Title
Who knows tomorrow / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie ; herausgegeben von/edited by Udo Kittelmann, Chika Okeke-Agulu und/and Britta Schmitz.
Publication
Köln ; London : Walther König, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Kittelmann, Udo.
  • Okeke-Agulu, Chika.
  • Schmitz, Britta.
Description
629 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm
Summary
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Berlin National Gallery, this richly illustrated book reflects on contemporary Africa and its cultural landscape through the lens of colonial history, using literary and scientific texts and essays.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition, pictorial works
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Pictorial works
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Berlin National Gallery, 4 June-26 Sept. 2010.
  • Exhibition included installations at four locations of the Nationalgalerie by five African artists: El Anatsui, Zarina Bhimji, António Ole, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Pascale Marthine Tayou.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • In German and English.
Contents
Who knows tomorow, who knows today / Britta Schmitz -- No condition is permanent : the art and politics of Euro-African encounter / Chika Okeke-Agulu -- Like savages : some remarks about the same old perception of Africa and how this exhibition came about / Bartholomäus Grill -- Cartographic images of Africa / Wolfgang Crom -- The festival opera house Remdoogo / Christoph Schlingensief in conversation with Udo Kittelmann -- Notes toward a hypothetical film practice / Akin Adesokan -- Contemporary African art : seismic shifts in the markets / Emma Bedford -- The myth of aid / Dambisa Moyo -- Abuja, the International Congress for Modern Architecture (CIAM), and global architectural history / Nnamdi Elleh -- The post-exotic era : phases of contemporary art from Africa in Germany / Ulf Vierke -- The headstrong historian / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- The little undanceable dance / Abdourahman Ali Waberi -- We're closing down the city / Ryszard Kapuściński -- The paradox of African boundaries / Paul Nugent and Anthony I. Asiwaju -- The forgotten empire : race, colonialism, and German national identity / Fatima El-Tayeb -- The Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 and the carving-up of Africa / Helmut Strizek -- (Post- )colonial Berlin : the German capital as a former metropolis of colonial power / Joachim Zeller -- The violence of intimate histories : Africa and the European colonial encounter / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.
ISBN
  • 9783865607898
  • 3865607896
OCLC
  • ocn646401385
  • 646401385
  • SCSB-1574030
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library