ISBN:
9781032029542
,
9781032029566
Language:
English
Pages:
140 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Routledge African studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als De-africanization of African art
DDC:
709.6
Keywords:
Art, African Philosophy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Africa Mis-Travelling to Modernity: From Modern African Art to African Modernism / Denis Ekpo -- Manifesto for Post-African Art / Denis Ekpo -- The New African Movement and the Artists it Inspired: The Early PostAfricanists / Pfunzo Sidogi -- Africanity, Litigation Aesthetics, and Openness to Being / Chielozona Eze -- Post-Africanism as Fluid, Feminist and Agentic Alterity / Runette Kruger -- The Ruses of the Afrophilia Condition / Thabang Molatelo Monoa.
Abstract:
"This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa's creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. This book critiques and dismantles the tropes of Africanism and Afrocentrism, providing the criteria and methodology for a Post-African art theory or Post-African aesthetics. Grounded initially in essays by Denis Ekpo, the father of Post-Africanism, the book then explores a range of applications and interpretations of Post-African theory to the art forms and creative practices in Africa. With particular reference to South Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers across the disciplines of Art, Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and African Studies"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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