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 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 …

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 …

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 …

from the Margins to the Page 1 African N1 odernism, from the Margins to the Narketplace John
Peffer Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor, eds. Reading the Contemporary:African Art from Theory …

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 …

Okwui Enwezor 0 ne of the problematic aspects of visiting museums, art gal-leries, and other
sites of cultural valuation, in Europe and the United States, is the pervasive absence in these …

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

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 …