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 …

This dissertation examines the shift in contemporary African art in the 1990s. By focusing on
the Dak'Art Biennial as an important context of analysis, it argues that the genesis of this shift …

Critical Interventions 3/4, Spring 2009 subject positions and its discourses of visual and
cultural representation? The conference subjected these issues to an interdisciplinary …

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 …

This chapter reviews the impact of colonialism on African art and identities, especially in the
emergent modernity of African artists such as Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993), Ben Enwonwu …

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 …

n geological terms, fault lines reveal themselves as fractures in the earth's surface, but they
also mark a break in the continuity of the strata. Fault lines may be a sign of significant shifts …

Yacouba Konaté, who acted as Artistic Director of the Dakar Biennale—or Dak'Art—in 2006,
discusses the mission and function of the Biennale, the challenges in selecting artists, and …

Walter Grasskamp (1996) 1 The general state of curatorial practices and research in
contemporary and modern African art has improved a great deal in the last two decades …

The use of found objects is evident in a range of contemporary artmaking practices. The use
of found objects can, however, no longer be understood as a rupture from tradition as they …