A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and
development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What …

Reading the Contemporary brings together twentytwo essays and articles from numerous art
magazines and journals, written between 1991-97. Divided into four sections—'Theory and …

Explores: th Century African Art” constitutes a watershed moment in the journal's relationship
with contemporary African art. Including wildly differing reviews by Olu Oguibe and …

A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of
contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout …

This book opens with the question, What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful
and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts …

This panel, convened from September 4 to October 10, 2009, is the second of a three-part
series on issues in contemporary African art. The first panel, which appeared in issue 22/23 …

When the academic sub-discipline of Africanist art history was first established in the 1960s,
its pioneers focused almost exclusively on 'traditional'and 'pre-modern'arts. Most scholars …

African art studies. It is a survey of how art from Africa has been defined by scholars, critics,
and curators based in Europe and America that was developed out of a methods seminar …

Is it now? Has it passed? Where, and when, is African art history? In his 1984 book Art
History in Africa, the venerable historian of Central Africa, Jan Vansina, famously chided his …

Considered for a long time by the art world as “primitive,” African art has always been used
by Africans as a way of telling the story of their time, of establishing a connection between …