Reading the Contemporary

1999 Art

Author : Olu Oguibe
Release : 1999
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Reading the Contemporary by : Olu Oguibe

Download or read book Reading the Contemporary written by Olu Oguibe. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, contemporary African art has been featured in major exhibtions in museums, galleries, international biennials, and other forums. African cinema has established itself on the stage of world cinema, culminating in the Ouagadougou Film Festival. While African art and visual culture have become an integral part of the art history and cultural studies curricula in universities worldwide, critical readings and interpretations have remained difficult to obtain. This pioneering anthology collects twenty key essays in which major critical thinkers, scholars, and artists explore contemporary African visual culture, locating it within current cultural debates and within the context of the continent's history. The sections of the book are Theory and Cultural Transaction, History, Location and Practice, and Negotiated Identities. Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

2009 Art

Author : Okwui Enwezor
Release : 2009
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 927/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Contemporary African Art Since 1980 by : Okwui Enwezor

Download or read book Contemporary African Art Since 1980 written by Okwui Enwezor. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [S]urvey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years.... Organized in chronological order, the book covers all major artistic mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, drawing, collage.... Presents examples of ... work by more than 160 African artists.... [I]ncludes Georges Adeagbo Tayo Adenaike, Ghada Amer, El Anatsui, Kader Attia, Luis Basto, Candice Breitz, Moustapha Dimé, Marlene Dumas, Victor Ekpuk, Samuel Fosso, Jak Katarikawe, William Kentridge, Rachid Koraichi, Mona Mazouk, Julie Mehretu, Nandipha Mntambo, Hassan Musa, Donald Odita, Iba Ndiaye, Richard Onyango, Ibrahim El Salahi, Issa Samb, Cheri Samba, Ousmane Sembene, Yinka Shonibare, Barthelemy Toguo, Obiora Udechukwu, and Sue Williamson.--From publisher description..

Issues in Contemporary African Art

1998 Art

Author : Nkiru Nzegwu
Release : 1998
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Issues in Contemporary African Art by : Nkiru Nzegwu

Download or read book Issues in Contemporary African Art written by Nkiru Nzegwu. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Authentic, Ex-centric

2001 Art

Author : Salah M. Hassan
Release : 2001
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Authentic, Ex-centric by : Salah M. Hassan

Download or read book Authentic, Ex-centric written by Salah M. Hassan. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the musty stereotypes and prejudices that still consider Africa a dark continent full of nameless, Third World nations always striving but never managing to catch up with the West, Authentic/Ex-Centric positions Africa as the source of many of the ideas associated with European modernism. From Cubism's radical abstraction to 70s performance art and its use of ritual, shamanism, and magic, the influence of African art has long been underap-preciated. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held to critical acclaim on the fringes of the 2001 Venice Biennale, Authentic/Ex-centric offers a glimpse of the ways in which African and African and African Diaspora artists have interpreted and translated the aesthetic and social experiences of post-colonial Africa into new idioms of artistic expression, and argues for their proper location in the broad narrative of global conceptualism. Including work by such artists as Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Willem Boshoff, Godfried Donkor, Rachid Koraichi, Berni Searle, and Yinka Shonibare.

African Artists

2021 ART

Author : Joseph L. Underwood
Release : 2021
Genre : ART
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis African Artists by : Joseph L. Underwood

Download or read book African Artists written by Joseph L. Underwood. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Africa's booming art scene has gained substantial global attention, with a growing number of international exhibitions and a stronger-than-ever presence on the art market worldwide. Here, for the first time, is the most substantial survey to date of modern and contemporary African-born or Africa-based artists. Working with a panel of experts, this volume builds on the success of Phaidon's bestselling Great Women Artists in re-writing a more inclusive and diverse version of art history.

Popular eBooks

Reading the Contemporary

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

Issues in Contemporary African Art

Authentic, Ex-centric

African Artists

You may also like...