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African art from theory to the marketplace

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Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace
May 5, 2000, The MIT Press
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1999, Institute of International Visual Arts, MIT Press
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Table of Contents

Art, identity, boundaries : postmodernism and contemporary African art / Olu Oguibe
'Reprendre' : enunciations and strategies in contemporary African arts / V.Y. Mudimbe
The postcolonial and the postmodern / Kwame Anthony Appiah
Bourdieu out of Europe? / Everlyn Nicodemus
African art and authenticity : a text with a shadow / Sidney Kasfir
In vogue, or the flavour of the month : the new way to wear black / John Picton
Negritude : between mask and flag - Senegalese cultural ideology and the Ecole de Dakar / Ima Ebong
The quest for a Nigerian art : or a story of art from Zaria to Nsukka / Chika Okeke
New developments in Black African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike
The modernist experience in African art : visual expressions of the self and cross-cultural aesthetics / Salah Hassan
Talk of the town : Seydou Keïta / Manthia Diawara
Between worlds : postmodernism and African artists in the western metropolis / Okwui Enwezor
Traces of ecstasy / Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Eros & Diaspora / Kobena Mercer
Meaning in transit : framing the works of Boutros, Dridi, Ennadre, Gasteli and Naji / Octavio Zaya
Fusion : hot or cold? / Thomas McEvilley
In the 'heart of darkness' / Olu Oguibe
The identity question : focus on Black South African expression / David Koloane
Inversion of the printed image : Namibian perspectives of John Ndevasia Muafangejo / Margo Timm
About face : aspects of art history and identity in South African visual culture / Colin Richards
Reframing the Black subject : ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation / Okwui Enwezor
The carapace that failed : Ousmane Sembene's 'Xala' (1974) / Laura Mulvey

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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London, Cambridge, Mass
Other Titles
African art from theory to the marketplace

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Library of Congress
NX588.75 .R43 1999

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432 p. :
Number of pages
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OL16989390M
ISBN 10
0262650517
LCCN
99060346
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