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Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization.
Monica Blackmun Visonà is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Visual Studies of the University of Kentucky, USA, where she teaches courses on African art and architecture, and art historical methods. The principle author of A History of Art in Africa (2000, 2008), she has also published Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d’Ivoire (2010), and contributed articles to Art Bulletin and African Arts. She is currently researching the artists of the western Akan peoples for a museum exhibition.
Gitti Salami is Associate Professor of World Art History at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA. In a decade of extensive field research in south-eastern Nigeria she has published numerous articles on Yakurr culture in African Arts and Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. She has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship and a grant from the West African Research Association (WARA), and has held resident fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of East Anglia, UK. A forthcoming monograph examines contemporary Yakurr art genres from a postcolonial theoretical standpoint.
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Writing African Modernism into Art HistoryGitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà
PART II: “AFRICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN MODERN”
2. Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa Henry John Drewal
PART III: ART IN COSMOPOLITAN AFRICA: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
3. Loango Coast Ivories and the Legacies of Afro-Portuguese Arts Nichole N. Bridges
4. Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices: From Modern to Vernacular Photography in West and Central AfricaChristraud M. Geary
5. At Home in the World: Portrait Photography and Swahili Mercantile Aesthetics Prita Meier
6. African Reimaginations: Presence, Absence and New Way Architecture Ikem Stanley Okoye
PART IV: MODERNITIES AND CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN ARTS OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
7. “One of the Best Tools for Learning”: Rethinking the Role of ‘Abduh’s Fatwa in Egyptian Art HistoryDina A. Ramadan
8. Congolese and Belgian Appropriations of the Colonial Era: The Commissioned Work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and its Reception Kathrin Langenohl
9. Warriors in Top Hats: Images of Modernity and Military Power on West African CoastsMonica Blackmun Visonà
PART V: COLONIALISM, MODERNISM, AND ART IN INDEPENDENT NATIONS
10. Algerian Painters and Pioneers of Modernism Mary Vogl
11. Kofi Antubam, 1922-1964: A Modern Ghanaian Artist, Educator and WriterAtta Kwami
12. Patron and Artist in the Shaping of Zimbabwean Art Elizabeth Morton
13. “Being Modern”: Identity Debates and Makerere’s Art School in the 1960s Sunanda K. Sanyal
14. The École des Arts and Exhibitionary Platforms in Post Independence Senegal Joanne Grabski
15. From Iconoclasm to Heritage: the Osogbo Art Movement and the Dynamics of Modernism in Nigeria Peter Probst
16. Modernity and Modernism in African Art John Picton
17. A Century of Painting in the Congo: Image, Memory, Experience and Knowledge Bogumil Jewsiewicki
PART VI: PERSPECTIVES ON ARTS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
18. Visual Expressivity in the Art of the Black Diaspora: Conjunctures and Disjuncturesdele jegede
PART VII: SYNTHESES IN ART OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
19. Art and Social Dynamics in Côte d’Ivoire: the Position of Vohou-Vohou Yacouba Konate
20. Contemporary Contradictions: Bronzecasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin Barbara Winston Blackmun
21. Puppets as Witnesses and Perpetrators in “Ubu and the Truth Commission Peter Ukpokodu
22. Moroccan Art Museums and Memories of Modernity Katarzyna Pieprzak
PART VIII: PRIMITIVISM AS ERASURE
23. The Enduring Power of Primitivism: Showcasing the Other in Twenty-First Century France Sally Price
PART IX: LOCAL EXPRESSION AND GLOBAL MODERNITY AFRICAN ART OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
24. Zwelethu Mthethwa’s ‘Post-Documentary’ Portraiture: Views From South Africa and Abroad Pamela Allara
25. Creative Diffusion: African Intersections in the Biennale Network Kinsey Katchka
26. Lacuna: Uganda in a Globalizing FieldSidney Littlefield Kasfir
27. Painted Visions under Rebel Domination: A Cultural Center and Political Imagination in Northern Côte d’Ivoire Till Förster
28. Post-Independence Architecture through North Korean Modes: Namibian Commissions of the Mansudae Overseas Project Meghan L. E. Kirkwood
29. Concrete Aspirations: Modern Art at the Roundabout in Ugep, Cross River State, NigeriaGitti Salami
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