Contemporary art of Africa reached a wider audience in the aftermath of the Magiciens de la
Terre exhibition (Paris 1989). This study of fourteen artists from Ivory Coast and Benin is …

This exhibition of contemporary African art was originally organized for the 1993 Venice
Biennale, where it marked the second occasion in the institution's history on which African …

During the fifty year period of the second half of the 20th century the field of African Art
History, as well as the forms of art studies and art exhibitions have changed considerably …

This introductory chapter of A Companion to Modern African Art provides an overview of the
contents discussed in the remaining chapters of the book. The book foregrounds just one …

'Today there is a related paradigm in advanced art on the left: the artist as ethnographer. The
object of contestation remains, at least in part, the bourgeois institution of autonomous art, its …

This article addresses 'modern'and 'contemporary'as two distinct categories in African artistic
practices and art history. It engages with exhibitions as sites of knowledge production and …

The anomaly of the apartheid reality in South Africa has always appeared inconceivable and
absurd to the world at large. The schism created by the policy of racial discrimination has …

It is always pretentious to treat African art as though a unitary vision of art as it is currently
practiced in Africa were possible. This point of view in fact ignores or neglects African …

South Africa, I would argue, has no official programme for cultural exchange with the African
continent. Aside from smaller ventures, often initiated with European funding, projects and …