Title Contemporary African art / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publication Info New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, 2000, c1999
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  110.909 K15    REQUESTABLE
 Watson Study Room  N7380 .K36 2000  Stacks  REQUESTABLE
Description 224 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 23 cm
Series World of art
Contents Ch. 1. New Genres: Inventing African Popular Culture -- Ch. 2. Transforming the Workshop -- Ch. 3. Patrons and Mediators -- Ch. 4. Art and Commodity -- Ch. 5. The African Artist: Shifting Identities in the Postcolonial World -- Ch. 6. The Idea of a National Culture: Decolonizing African Art -- Ch. 7. Migration and Displacement
Summary "This pioneering history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years, achieving an impressive balance between the critical re-examination of frequently discussed artists, groups and workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more recent material. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which the older, precolonial and colonial genres of African art were made. It is in this sense, and in the habits and attitudes of artists towards making art, rather than in any adherence to a particular style, medium, technique, or thematic range, that the art is recognizably "African." Beginning in the early 1950s, the transformations in patronage, training and literacy brought about the birth of new genres which have been propelled onto a world stage."--BOOK JACKET
Biography or History Sidney Littlefield Kasfir is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta and Curator of African Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, also at Emory University
Notes ISBN identical with London ed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-217) and index
Subjects Art, African -- 20th century.
Art, African.
Series World of art.
Other Edition Online version: Contemporary African art. (OCoLC)1028562701
ISBN 0500203288
OCLC 42039553