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Africa explores : 20th century African art / Susan Vogel ; assisted by Ima Ebong ; contributions by Walter E.A. van Beek ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Center for African Art ; Munich : Prestel-Verlag ; New York City : Distributed in the U.S. of America and Canada by Neues Pub. Co., c1991.Description: 294 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 3791311433 (cloth) :
  • 0945802099
  • 9783791311432
  • 9780945802099
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709/.67/07473 20
LOC classification:
  • N7391.65 .V63 1991
Item type: Book
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NURU LIBRARY Reference Section N7391.65 .V63 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 58157

Publication to accompany the exposition Africa explores, held simultaneously at the Center for African Art and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, May 16-Aug. 1991, and later travelling to other venues.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-294) and index.

Contents:-Introduction : digesting the West ; Traditional art : elastic continuum / Susan Vogel -- Enter the bush : a Dogon mask festival / Walter E.A. Van Beck -- New functional art : future traditions ; Urban art : art of the here and now / Susan Vogel -- Painting in Zaire : from the invention of the West to the representation of social self / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- International art : the official story / Susan Vogel -- Negritude : between mask and flag, Senegalese cultural ideology and the "École de Dakar" / Ima Ebong -- Extinct art : inspiration and burden / Susan Vogel -- Afrokitsch / Donald J. Cosentino -- The selfhood of the other : reflections of a westerner on the occasion of an exhibition of contemporary art from Africa / Thomas McEvilley -- "Reprendre" : enunciations and strategies in contemporary African arts / V.Y. Mudimbe.

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