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Control # 1 hbl99059827
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20190911110833.0
Fixed Data 8 020813s2013 nju 000 0 eng d
ISBN 20    $a9781444338379 (hbk)
ISBN 20    $a1444338374 (hbk)
Obsolete 39    $a284491$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aGCG
LC Call 50 00 $aN7391.65$b.S25 2013
ME:Pers Name 100 $aSalami, Gitti,$eauthor.
Title 245 12 $aA companion to modern African art /$cby Gitti Salami, Monica Blackmun Visona.
Imprint 260    $aHoboken, New Jersey :$bJohn Wiley & Sons,$cc2013.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a626 p. :$bb&w ill. ;$c26 cm.
Series:Title 440  0 $aBlackwell companions to art history
Note:Content 505 00 $gPart I: Introduction. 1.$tWriting African modernism into art history /$rGitti Salami,$rMonica Blackmun Visona --$gPart II: "Africa has always been modern." 2.$tLocal transformations, global inspirations: the visual histories and cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa /$rHenry John Drewal --$gPart III: Art in cosmopolitan Africa: The Nineteenth Century. 3.$tLoango Coast ivories and the legacies of Afro-Portuguese arts /$rNichole N. Bridges ;$g4.$tRoots and routes of African photographic practices: From modern to vernacular photography in West and Central Africa (1850-1980) /$rChistraud M. Geary ;$g5.$tAt home in the world: portrait photography and Swahili mercantile aesthetics /$rPrita Meier ;$g6.$tAfrican reimaginations: presence, absence, and New Way architecture /$rIkem Stanley Okoye --$gPart IV: Modernities and cross-cultural encounters in arts of the early Twentieth Century. 7.$t"One of the best tools for learning": Rethinking the role of Abduh's fatwa in Egyptian art history /$rDina M. Ramadan ;$g8.$tCongolese and Belgian appropriations of the colonial era: The commissioned work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and its reception /$rKathrin Langenohl ;$g9. Warriors in top hats: Images of modernity and military power on West African coasts /$rMonica Blackmun Visona --$gPart V: Colonialism, modernism, and art in independent nations. 10.$tAlgerian painters as pioneers of modernism /$rMary Vogl ;$g11.$tKofi Antubam, 1922-1964: a modern Ghanian artist, educator, and writer /$rAtta Kwami ;$g12.$tPatron and artist in the shaping of Zimbabwean art /$rElizabeth Morton ;$g13.$t"Being modern": Identity debates and Makerere's art school in the 1960s /$rSunanda K. Sanyal ;$g14. The$tEcole des Arts and exhibitionary platforms in Postindependence Senegal /$rJoanna Grabski ;$g15.$tFrom Iconoclasm to Heritage: The Osogbo Art Movement and the dynamics of modernism in Nigeria /$rPeter Probst ;$g16.$tModernism and modernity in African art /$rJohn Picton ;$g17. A$tCentury of painting in the Congo: Image, memory, experience, and knowledge /$rBogumil Jewsiewicki --$gPart VI: Perspectives on arts of the African Diaspora. 18.$tVisual expressivity in the art of the Black Diaspora: Conjunctures and disjunctures /$rdele jegede --$gPart VII: Syntheses in art of the late Twentieth Century. 19.$tArt and social dynamics in Cote d'Ivoire: The position of Vohou-Vohou /$rYacouba Konate ;$g20.$tContemporary contradictions: Bronzecasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin /$rBarbara Winston Blackmun ;$g21.$tPuppets as witnesses and perpetrators in Ubu and the Truth Commission /$rPeter Ukpokodu $g22.$tMoroccan art museums and memories of modernity /$rKatarzyna Pieprzak --$gPart VIII: Primitivism as erasure. 23. The$tEnduring power of primitivism: showcasing "the Other" in Twenty-First-Century France /$rSally Price --$gPart IX: Local expression and global modernity: African art of the Twenty-First Century. 24.$tZwelethu Mthethwa's "Postdocumentary" portraiture: Views from South Africa and abroad /$rPamela Allara ;$g25.$tCreative diffusion: African intersections in the Biennale Network /$rKinsey Katchka ;$g26.$tLacuna: Uganda in a globalizing cultural field /$rSidney Littlefield Kasfir ;$g27.$tPainted visions under rebel domination: a cultural center and political imagination in Northern Cote d'Ivoire /$rTill Forster ;$g28.$tPostindependence architecture through North Korean modes: Namibian commissions of the Mansudae Overseas Project /$rMeghan L.E. Kirkwood ;$g29.$tConcrete aspirations: modern art at the Roundabout in Ugep /$rGitti Salami
Abstract 520    $aOffering 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.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt, African$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt, African$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt, African$y21st century.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aVisonà, Monica Blackmun,$d1953-$eauthor.