Reading the contemporary
Subtitle: African art from theory to the marketplace
By: edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor
Contributors: Oguibe, Olu, 1964-; Enwezor, Okwui
Edition: 1st MIT Press ed
Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts; MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Art, African; Arts, Modern -- 20th century
Other titles: African art from theory to the marketplace
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Art, identity, boundaries : postmodernism and contemporary African art / Olu Oguibe; title: 'Reprendre' : enunciations and strategies in contemporary African arts / V.Y. Mudimbe; title: The postcolonial and the postmodern / Kwame Anthony Appiah; title: Bourdieu out of Europe? / Everlyn Nicodemus; title: African art and authenticity : a text with a shadow / Sidney Kasfir; title: In vogue, or the flavour of the month : the new way to wear black / John Picton; title: Negritude : between mask and flag - Senegalese cultural ideology and the Ecole de Dakar / Ima Ebong; title: The quest for a Nigerian art : or a story of art from Zaria to Nsukka / Chika Okeke; title: New developments in Black African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike; title: The modernist experience in African art : visual expressions of the self and cross-cultural aesthetics / Salah Hassan; title: Talk of the town : Seydou Keïta / Manthia Diawara; title: Between worlds : postmodernism and African artists in the western metropolis / Okwui Enwezor; title: Traces of ecstasy / Rotimi Fani-Kayode; title: Eros & Diaspora / Kobena Mercer; title: Meaning in transit : framing the works of Boutros, Dridi, Ennadre, Gasteli and Naji / Octavio Zaya; title: Fusion : hot or cold? / Thomas McEvilley; title: In the 'heart of darkness' / Olu Oguibe; title: The identity question : focus on Black South African expression / David Koloane; title: Inversion of the printed image : Namibian perspectives of John Ndevasia Muafangejo / Margo Timm; title: About face : aspects of art history and identity in South African visual culture / Colin Richards; title: Reframing the Black subject : ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation / Okwui Enwezor; title: The carapace that failed : Ousmane Sembene's 'Xala' (1974) / Laura Mulvey