Several exhibitions and a few texts produced during the last decade have effectively captured aspects of the complexity of the contemporary African art scene through interdisciplinary and visual culture approaches.2 These include exhibitions and companion texts such as Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, The Short Century, Authentic/ExCentric, Looking Both Ways, A Fiction of Authenticity, Snap Judgments, and Africa Remix. Contemporary African artists have started to enjoy some recognition, albeit on a smaller scale than that accorded to their Western counterparts. Walter Grasskamp (1996) 1 T he general state of curatorial practices and research in contemporary and modern African art has improved a great deal in the last two decades, and a number of wellresearched books, dissertations, exhibitions and catalogues have been produced. Historiography pretends to go by the worth of events, as contemporaries supposedly saw it, but uses its own evaluation. Hassan istoriography, including art historiography, is only possible if a few events are selected from the chaos and peddled. SHOWS Moderated by Chika Okeke-Agulu with an introduction by Salah M. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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