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 A pioneering continent–based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork–based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the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 INDICE: List of Figures Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Writing African Modernism into Art History Gitti 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 Africa Christraud 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 History Dina 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 Coasts Monica 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 Writer Atta 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 Disjunctures dele 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 Field Sidney 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, Nigeria Gitti Salami
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3837-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 648
- Fecha Publicación: 29/11/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés