Rather than view these multiple modes of artistic production as obstacles to a coherent
identity or as conflicting forms of expression, the editors of African Arts view them as part of …

Art in the broadest sense, as creative and aesthetic experience, is universal to all men. From
this general perspective, one may analyse art at many levels-even simultaneously. One …

African art has, since the 1980s, gained ground in the Western contemporary art world.
Large-scale shows featuring African art have set the stage for portrayals of a post-colonial …

In the last year of the last millennium, I was asked to write a First Word for African Arts about
anything in our field that I thought needed changing and to" be angry," in order to elicit a …

This essay examines five propositions about current art in Africa. They are offered as a way
of helping to understand something of the history of art in Africa during the 20th century and …

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 …