Joanna Grabski
Biographic Data
| ID | 160356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Grabski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Grabski |
| SIGNATURE | GRABSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Art World City
Regarding Artists, the City, and the Global Art World
June 01 2015 Regarding Artists, the City, and the Global Art World Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Warner Professor and Chair, Art History and Visual Culture, Denison University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Warner Professor and Chair, Art History and Visual Culture, Denison University. [email protected] Onli…
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
The interview as a critical research tool for African art
The ÉCole des Arts and Exhibitionary Platforms in Postindependence Senegal
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previ…
Doug FISHBONE (director), Elmina. Flatbush Films, in partnership with Revele Films, 2010
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Market logics
This essay addresses two questions linking artists and market spaces in Dakar. First, what do access, proximity, and the representation of locality have to do with the art market? And, secondly, how do markets, networks, and mobility produce and structure artists as a professional category in Dakar? The analysis and theorisation proposed here aligns Dakar’s art market with the city’s other markets as a transactive and productive space. In doing s…
Making Fashion in the City
This article examines the interface between fashion production and the visual experience associated with urban life in Dakar, Senegal. It focuses on tailors and fashion designers to explore how their relationship to the city informs their creative practices and the processes of making fashion. Both tailors and fashion designers locate their creative practice in Dakar by attributing their engagement with the city's visual and conceptual matrix as …
Urban Claims and Visual Sources in the Making of Dakar's Art World City
Dakar in Senegal is one of the African continent's premier contemporary art metropolises. The city's history as an art world center dates to the 1960s when President Léopold Sédar Senghor established a number of cultural institutions in Dakar linking modernist artistic production to Senegal's post-independence nationalist project. Whereas rich scholarship has dealt with art, independence, and nation building, this article addresses the relationsh…
The Dak'art Biennale
Research Article| May 01 2008 THE DAK'ART BIENNALE: EXHIBITING CONTEMPORARY ART AND GEOPOLITICS IN AFRICA Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor of African Art History at Denison University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 104–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-104 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Sufi City
Trajectoires
Introduction to Special Issue
Cities in Africa, like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, are intensely visual environments. For visitors and residents alike, it is seemingly impos sible to amble through certain city neighborhoods without visual traffic pulling the eye in several directions at once. Myriad ocular phenomena? from the spatial configurations of neighborhoods and the built environment to public spectacles, billboards, graffiti, personal sartorial expression…
Senghorama
September 01 2007 Senghorama Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski JOANNA GRABSKI is associate professor of art history at Denison University. She is currently working on a book manuscript dealing with contemporary art in Dakar. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joanna Grabski JOANNA GRABSKI is associate professor of art history at Denison University. She is currently working on a book manus…
Painting Fictions/Painting History
Film/Video
Dakar's Urban Landscapes
Recalling the Future
Fode Camara
Making Fashion in the City
This article examines the interface between fashion production and the visual experience associated with urban life in Dakar, Senegal. It focuses on tailors and fashion designers to explore how their relationship to the city informs their creative practices and the processes of making fashion. Both tailors and fashion designers locate their creative practice in Dakar by attributing their engagement with the city's visual and conceptual matrix as …
Dakar's Urban Landscapes
Painting Fictions/Painting History
Urban Claims and Visual Sources in the Making of Dakar's Art World City
Dakar in Senegal is one of the African continent's premier contemporary art metropolises. The city's history as an art world center dates to the 1960s when President Léopold Sédar Senghor established a number of cultural institutions in Dakar linking modernist artistic production to Senegal's post-independence nationalist project. Whereas rich scholarship has dealt with art, independence, and nation building, this article addresses the relationsh…
The Dak'art Biennale
Research Article| May 01 2008 THE DAK'ART BIENNALE: EXHIBITING CONTEMPORARY ART AND GEOPOLITICS IN AFRICA Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor of African Art History at Denison University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 104–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-104 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Market logics
This essay addresses two questions linking artists and market spaces in Dakar. First, what do access, proximity, and the representation of locality have to do with the art market? And, secondly, how do markets, networks, and mobility produce and structure artists as a professional category in Dakar? The analysis and theorisation proposed here aligns Dakar’s art market with the city’s other markets as a transactive and productive space. In doing s…
Fode Camara
Recalling the Future
Dakar's Urban Landscapes
Film/Video
Painting Fictions/Painting History
Introduction to Special Issue
Cities in Africa, like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, are intensely visual environments. For visitors and residents alike, it is seemingly impos sible to amble through certain city neighborhoods without visual traffic pulling the eye in several directions at once. Myriad ocular phenomena? from the spatial configurations of neighborhoods and the built environment to public spectacles, billboards, graffiti, personal sartorial expression…
Senghorama
September 01 2007 Senghorama Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski JOANNA GRABSKI is associate professor of art history at Denison University. She is currently working on a book manuscript dealing with contemporary art in Dakar. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joanna Grabski JOANNA GRABSKI is associate professor of art history at Denison University. She is currently working on a book manus…
The Dak'art Biennale
Research Article| May 01 2008 THE DAK'ART BIENNALE: EXHIBITING CONTEMPORARY ART AND GEOPOLITICS IN AFRICA Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor of African Art History at Denison University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 104–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-104 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Sufi City
Trajectoires
Making Fashion in the City
This article examines the interface between fashion production and the visual experience associated with urban life in Dakar, Senegal. It focuses on tailors and fashion designers to explore how their relationship to the city informs their creative practices and the processes of making fashion. Both tailors and fashion designers locate their creative practice in Dakar by attributing their engagement with the city's visual and conceptual matrix as …
Urban Claims and Visual Sources in the Making of Dakar's Art World City
Dakar in Senegal is one of the African continent's premier contemporary art metropolises. The city's history as an art world center dates to the 1960s when President Léopold Sédar Senghor established a number of cultural institutions in Dakar linking modernist artistic production to Senegal's post-independence nationalist project. Whereas rich scholarship has dealt with art, independence, and nation building, this article addresses the relationsh…
Market logics
This essay addresses two questions linking artists and market spaces in Dakar. First, what do access, proximity, and the representation of locality have to do with the art market? And, secondly, how do markets, networks, and mobility produce and structure artists as a professional category in Dakar? The analysis and theorisation proposed here aligns Dakar’s art market with the city’s other markets as a transactive and productive space. In doing s…
Doug FISHBONE (director), Elmina. Flatbush Films, in partnership with Revele Films, 2010
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
The interview as a critical research tool for African art
The ÉCole des Arts and Exhibitionary Platforms in Postindependence Senegal
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previ…
Regarding Artists, the City, and the Global Art World
June 01 2015 Regarding Artists, the City, and the Global Art World Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Warner Professor and Chair, Art History and Visual Culture, Denison University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joanna Grabski Joanna Grabski is Warner Professor and Chair, Art History and Visual Culture, Denison University. [email protected] Onli…
Art World City
Art (15 works) · African history and culture studies (14 works) · Visual arts (11 works) · Art history (7 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)