Contemporary art of Africa
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1996001: 7132ISBN: 0500017131Subject(s): Africa | Artists | ArtOnline resources: Click here to access onlineItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 709.04 MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 046449 |
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709.04 LIV Pop art | 709.04 LUC Movements in art since 1945 rev ed | 709.04 LUM Arte povera / | 709.04 MAG Contemporary art of Africa | 709.04 MAI Raw creation /Outsider art and beyond | 709.04 MAS Psychedelic art | 709.04 MAT Materiality / |
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Written in an era of increased awareness of the power and importance of all non-Western forms of art, this book provides an introduction to African art. In contrast to the traditional primitive forms that are associated with Africa, it presents the brilliantly coloured and sometimes uncoventional work of 60 artists.
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An exciting showcase of 60 contemporary sub-Saharan artists, most of them unknown in the West, this important survey explodes conventional categories such as "naïve" or "traditional" art or "urban painting." There is incisive social commentary in South African Zwelethu Mthethwa's Fauvist pastel Married and Middle-aged in Mbumbulu, in Zaire artist Cheik Ledy's provocative, posterlike Let's Not Be Afraid to Buy Condoms, in the jolting explorations of neocolonialism by the Ivory Coast's Vohou-Vohou group and in The Drama of the Sahel, an installation portraying a human skeleton caught in a mirror by Mali sculptor Abdoulaye Konate. For sheer artistry, there is Benin painter Cyprien Tokoudagba's astonishing acrylics made for voodoo rituals, or the Nigerian Meek Gichugu's lyrical yet unsettling pictures of interlocking figures set against a desertlike landscape. Commentaries on the artworks are provided by sculptor Louise Bourgeois, architect Ettore Sottsass, poet Emmett Williams and other American, African and European artists and critics. Magnin is director of the Contemporary African Art Collection, Paris and Geneva; Soulillou, director of the French Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reservedThere are no comments on this title.
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