ISBN:
1444338374
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9781444338379
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 626 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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26 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell companions to art history 6
Series Statement:
Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
709.6
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2013
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Art, African
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Modernism (Art)
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Art, African 20th century
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Art, African 19th century
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Art, African 21st century
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Kunst
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Afrika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Afrika
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1900-2013
Abstract:
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 A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across AfricaIncludes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based materialFeatures new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity
Note:
Literaturangaben
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1.Writing African Modernism into Art History
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16.Modernism and Modernity in African Art
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pt. II"Africa Has Always Been Modern"2.Local Transformations, Global Inspirations: The Visual Histories and Cultures of Mami Wata Arts in Africa
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pt. IIIArt in Cosmopolitan Africa: The Nineteenth Century3.Loango Coast Ivories and the Legacies of Afro-Portuguese Arts
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4.Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices: From Modern to Vernacular Photography in West and Central Africa (1850-1980)
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5.At Home in the World: Portrait Photography and Swahili Mercantile Aesthetics
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6.African Reimaginations: Presence, Absence, and New Way Architecture
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pt. IVModernities and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Arts of the Early Twentieth Century7."One of the Best Tools for Learning": Rethinking the Role of 'Abduh's Fatwa in Egyptian Art History
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8.Congolese and Belgian Appropriations of the Colonial Era: The Commissioned Work of Tshelantende (Djilatendo) and Its Reception
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9.Warriors in Top Hats: Images of Modernity and Military Power on West African Coasts
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pt. VColonialism, Modernism, and Art in Independent Nations10.Algerian Painters as Pioneers of Modernism
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11.Kofi Antubam, 1922-1964: A Modern Ghanaian Artist, Educator, and Writer
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12.Patron and Artist in the Shaping of Zimbabwean Art
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13."Being Modern": Identity Debates and Makerere's Art School in the 1960s
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14.The École des Arts and Exhibitionary Platforms in Postindependence Senegal
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15.From Iconoclasm to Heritage: The Osogbo Art Movement and the Dynamics of Modernism in Nigeria
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17.A Century of Painting in the Congo: Image, Memory, Experience, and Knowledge
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pt. VIPerspectives on Arts of the African Diaspora18.Visual Expressivity in the Art of the Black Diaspora: Conjunctures and Disjunctures
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pt. VIISyntheses in Art of the Late Twentieth Century19.Art and Social Dynamics in Côte d'lvoire: The Position of Vohou-Vohou
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20.Contemporary Contradictions: Bronzecasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin
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21.Puppets as Witnesses and Perpetrators in Ubu and the Truth Commission
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22.Moroccan Art Museums and Memories of Modernity
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pt. VIIIPrimitivism as Erasure23.The Enduring Power of Primitivism: Showcasing "the Other" in Twenty-First-Century France
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pt. IXLocal Expression and Global Modernity: African Art of the Twenty-First Century24.Zwelethu Mthethwa's "Postdocumentary" Portraiture: Views from South Africa and Abroad
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25.Creative Diffusion: African Intersections in the Biennale Network
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26.Lacuna: Uganda in a Globalizing Cultural Field
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27.Painted Visions under Rebel Domination: A Cultural Center and Political Imagination in Northern Côte d'lvoire
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28.Postindependence Architecture through North Korean Modes: Namibian Commissions of the Mansudae Overseas Project
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29.Concrete Aspirations: Modern Art at the Roundabout in Ugep
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