The Culture Game

by Oguibe, Olu

• ISBN13: 9780816641314
• ISBN10: 0816641315
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

In self-congratulatory tones of tolerance, the Western gatekeepers of the contemporary art world take great pains to demonstrate their inclusive vision of world culture. Non-Western artists soon discover that this veneer of liberalism masks an array of unwritten, unspoken, and unseemly codes and quotas dictating the success of their careers. In past decades, cultural institutions in the West resisted difference; today, they are obsessed with exoticism. Both attitudes reflect entrenched prejudices that prescribe the rules of what Nigerian-born artist, curator, and scholar Olu Oguibe terms the "culture game." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Olu Oguibe is associate professor of art and art history at the University of Connecticut

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue	xi
Part I. Terrain of Difficulty
In The Heart of Darkness"	3	(7)
Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art	10	(8)
Play Me the "Other": Colonialist Determinism and the Postcolonial Predicament	18	(15)
Double Dutch and the Culture Game	33	(14)
Part II. Nation, History, Image
Nationalism, Modernity, Modernism	47	(13)
"Footprints of a Mountaineer": Uzo Egonu and Black Redefinition of Modernism	60	(13)
Photography and the Substance of the Image	73	(17)
Medium, Memory, Image	90	(31)
Represent'n: The Young Generation in African American Art	121	(18)
The Burden of Painting	139	(10)
Part III. Brave "New World"
Forsaken Geographies: Cyberspace and the New World "Other"	149	(10)
On Digital "Third Worlds": An Interview	159	(10)
Connectivity and the Fate of the Unconnected	169	(10)
Notes	179	(12)
Previous Publications	191	(2)
Index	193