Author:
Salami, Gitti, author.
Imprint:Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, c2013.
Description626 p. : b&w ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:Part I: Introduction. 1. Writing African modernism into art history / Gitti Salami, Monica Blackmun Visona -- 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 (1850-1980) / Chistraud 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 M. 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 Visona -- Part V: Colonialism, modernism, and art in independent nations. 10. Algerian painters as pioneers of modernism / Mary Vogl ; 11. Kofi Antubam, 1922-1964: a modern Ghanian 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 Ecole des Arts and exhibitionary platforms in Postindependence Senegal / Joanna Grabski ; 15. From Iconoclasm to Heritage: The Osogbo Art Movement and the dynamics of modernism in Nigeria / Peter Probst ; 16. Modernism and modernity 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 Cote 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 "Postdocumentary" 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 cultural field / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir ; 27. Painted visions under rebel domination: a cultural center and political imagination in Northern Cote d'Ivoire / Till Forster ; 28. Postindependence 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 / Gitti Salami
Note:Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern art and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who access 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.
