VU Research Portal Page 1 VU Research Portal What is this? Woets, R. 2011 document version
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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 …

While Ghana has centuries of tradition in producing some significant art, the literature on
Ghanaian art suggests a preponderance of Euro-American writing about it, and on the …

Critical Interventions 11, Spring 2013 initiation rites. While performer and audience are
closely knit in ritual performance in the South of Ghana such as in chiefly durbars or …

This study examines the major trends and transformations in Uganda's modern art practice
since its inception at Makerere in the 1930s by Margaret Trowell. In the early stages of its …

Impact of Colonialism on Contemporary African Art Page 1 Bowling Green State University
ScholarWorks@BGSU Africana Studies Student Research Conference 18th Annual Africana …

'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 thesis aims to assess the extent to which the African curated exhibition, Dak'Art:
Biennale de l'art africain contemporain, succeeds in subverting hegemonic Western …

What can an art biennale in Dakar, Senegal, tell us about current discourses surrounding
the place of art in the world, and in the academic study of anthropology? This volume …

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 …