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100 1 $aKasfir, Sidney Littlefield.
245 10 $aContemporary African art /$cSidney Littlefield Kasfir.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bThames and Hudson,$c2000.
300 $a224 p. :$bill. (some col.), col. map ;$c21 cm.
440 4 $aThe world of art
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 214-217) and index.
505 0 $aNew genres: inventing African popular culture -- Transforming the workshop -- Patrons and mediators -- Art and commodity -- The African artist: shifting identities in the postcolonial world -- The idea of a national culture: decolonizing African art -- Migration and displacement.
520 $aThis pioneering history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years, achieving an impressive balance between the critical reexamination of frequently discussed artists, groups and workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more recent material. Postcolonial art in Africa has built seamlessly upon already existing structures in which the older, precolonial and colonial genres of African art were made. It is in this sense, and in the habits and attitudes of artists towards making art, rather than in any adherence to a particular style, medium, technique, or thematic range, that the art is recognizably African. Beginning in the early 1950s, the transformations in patronage, training and literacy brought about the birth of new genres which have been propelled onto a world stage. This critical history examines the major themes and accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years, achieving an impressive balance between the critical reexamination of frequently discussed artists, groups, and workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more recent material. Author has taught, curated, and carried out extensive filed research in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya, and has made briefer research trips to nine other African countries for her research.
650 0 $aArt, African$y20th century.
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