A companion to modern African Art First Edition by Gitti Salami, Monica Blackmun Visona ISBN 1306140749 9781306140744

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ISBN 10: 1306140749

ISBN 13: 9781306140744 

Author: Gitti Salami, Monica Blackmun Visonà 

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.

• A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa
• Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material
• Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism
• Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art

Table of contents:

Part I : Introduction

• Writing African Modernism into Art History

Part II : “Africa Has Always Been Modern”

• Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa

Part III : Art in Cosmopolitan Africa

• Loango Coast Ivories and the Legacies of Afro-Portuguese Arts

• Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices: From Modern to Vernacular Photography in West and Central Africa (1850–1980)

• At Home in the World: Portrait Photography and Swahili Mercantile Aesthetics

• African Reimaginations: Presence, Absence, and New Way Architecture

Part IV : Modernities and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Arts of the Early Twentieth Century

• “One of the Best Tools for Learning”: Rethinking the Role of ‘Abduh’s Fatwa in Egyptian Art History

• Congolese and Belgian Appropriations of the Colonial Era: The Commissioned Work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and Its Reception

• Warriors in Top Hats: Images of Modernity and Military Power on West African Coasts

Part V : Colonialism, Modernism, and Art in Independent Nations

• Algerian Painters as Pioneers of Modernism

• Kofi Antubam, 1922–1964: A Modern Ghanaian Artist, Educator, and Writer

• Patron and Artist in the Shaping of Zimbabwean Art

• “Being Modern”: Identity Debates and Makerere’s Art School in the 1960S

• The ÉCole des Arts and Exhibitionary Platforms in Postindependence Senegal

• From Iconoclasm to Heritage: The Osogbo Art Movement and the Dynamics of Modernism in Nigeria

• Modernism and Modernity in African Art

• A Century of Painting in the Congo: Image, Memory, Experience, and Knowledge

Part VI : Perspectives on Arts of the African Diaspora

• Visual Expressivity in the Art of the Black Diaspora: Conjunctures and Disjunctures

Part VII : Syntheses in Art of the Late Twentieth Century

• Art and Social Dynamics in Côte D’Ivoire: The Position of Vohou-Vohou

• Contemporary Contradictions: Bronzecasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin

• Puppets as Witnesses and Perpetrators in Ubu and the Truth Commission

• Moroccan Art Museums and Memories of Modernity

Part VIII : Primitivism as Erasure

• The Enduring Power of Primitivism: Showcasing “the Other” in Twenty-First-Century France

Part IX : Local Expression and Global Modernity

• Zwelethu Mthethwa’s “Postdocumentary“ Portraiture: Views from South Africa and Abroad

• Creative Diffusion: African Intersections in the Biennale Network

• Lacuna: Uganda in a Globalizing Cultural Field

• Painted Visions Under Rebel Domination: A Cultural Center and Political Imagination in Northern Côte d’Ivoire

• Postindependence Architecture through North Korean Modes: Namibian Commissions of the Mansudae Overseas Project

• Concrete Aspirations: Modern Art at the Roundabout in Ugep

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