Elizabeth Harney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Harney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Harney |
| SIGNATURE | HARNEY É |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Contemporary Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Persistence of Primitivism and the Debt Collectors
As the discipline of Art History increasingly aims to decolonize the gaze, questions have become paramount around cross-cultural influence and indebtedness, the traffic and translation of forms and ideas in the colonial modern era, and the mechanisms of postcolonial retrospection. Harney addresses these questions and the resonances of aesthetic primitivism in scholarship on African and diasporic modernisms and global contemporary artistic practic…
Narratives of a reluctant modernist: Rethinking William Fagg’s Africa
Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism
Art from the Archive
Mbembe (2010) have struggled to rethink African subjectivity and define a register that does not reduce the continent to eternal suffering or victimhood. The current interest in the archive is driven by a strong desire to examine the temporal and spatial mechanisms that have delivered us to a “posthistorical” moment of contemporaneity. In this context, contemporary artists have started to revisit the colonial archives (Demos 2013). Such returns a…
Rhythm as the Architecture of Being: Reflections on a Black Soul
This article explores the circumstances under which Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet‐philosopher and first president of Senegal, developed a theory of racial belonging, situating the black soul within experiences of modernity. This article addresses the distinctiveness of Senghor’s Negritude, focusing attention on the complex, uneasy relationship between often racist European thinking on Africa and the means by which Senghor, as a pan‐Africanist and a…
Postcolonial Agitations: Avant-Gardism in Dakar and London
This article questions the applicability of received theories of the avant-garde to artistic practices in postcolonial Africa. In particular, it looks at the politics of exhibition and reception of two vanguard groupings operating in Senegal, one in the 1970s, another in the present day, that have been presented within major forums celebrating global art in the neoliberal era. As complex mixes of indigenous and global forms and ideas, these pract…
The Densities of Modernism
This essay looks at the career of pioneering Senegalese painter Iba N'Diaye and his relation to now well-established narratives of modernism in Senegal. Typical accounts of the mid-twentieth century equate the modern with the cultural patronage, Négritude writings, and state-sponsored visual arts movement that flourished under the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. N'Diaye, as one of the first instructors at an art academy founded…
Exhibition Reviews
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art
September 01 2007 Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art Christine Mullen Kreamer, Christine Mullen Kreamer CHRISTINE MULLEN KREAMER is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mary Nooter Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts MARY (POLLY) NOOTER ROBERTS is deputy director and chief curator at the Fowl…
Les Arts Premiers” in Paris: Le Monument De l'Autre
Painting Fictions/Painting History: Modernist Pioneers at Senegal's Ecole Des Arts: [With Commentary]
In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal's first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well-funded system for nurturing their work. In questio…
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
The Ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile
Alors que les historiens de l'art africain s'interessent de plus en plus a l'art africain contemporain, il est fondamental de reexaminer les contributions pionieres d'artistes, de patrons et d'activistes culturels qui ont opere dans l'immediat de la periode post-independance. L'une de ces premieres matrices artistiques fut le milieu autour de l'Ecole de Dakar, qui a joue un role critique dans la definition de l'art moderne et de la figure de l'ar…
National Museum of African Art
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
Viyé Diba: Profound Beauty
Arts and Politics in Senegal 1960–1996
Other| May 01 1999 ARTS AND POLITICS IN SENEGAL 1960–1996 Elizabeth Harney Elizabeth Harney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 70. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10-1-70 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth Harney; ARTS AND POLITICS IN SENEGAL 1960–1996. Nka 1 May 1999; 1999 (10): 70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10-1-70 Download citation file: …
The Art of Mor Faye
Transforming the Crown. African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996
Les Chers Enfants' sans Papa
Journal Article ‘Les Chers Enfants’ sans Papa Get access ELIZABETH HARNEY ELIZABETH HARNEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.1.42 Published: 01 March 1996
In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal's first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well-funded system for nurturing their work. In questio…
Painting Fictions/Painting History: Modernist Pioneers at Senegal's Ecole Des Arts: [With Commentary]
The Ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile
Alors que les historiens de l'art africain s'interessent de plus en plus a l'art africain contemporain, il est fondamental de reexaminer les contributions pionieres d'artistes, de patrons et d'activistes culturels qui ont opere dans l'immediat de la periode post-independance. L'une de ces premieres matrices artistiques fut le milieu autour de l'Ecole de Dakar, qui a joue un role critique dans la definition de l'art moderne et de la figure de l'ar…
Arts and Politics in Senegal 1960–1996
Other| May 01 1999 ARTS AND POLITICS IN SENEGAL 1960–1996 Elizabeth Harney Elizabeth Harney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 70. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10-1-70 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth Harney; ARTS AND POLITICS IN SENEGAL 1960–1996. Nka 1 May 1999; 1999 (10): 70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10-1-70 Download citation file: …
Art from the Archive
Mbembe (2010) have struggled to rethink African subjectivity and define a register that does not reduce the continent to eternal suffering or victimhood. The current interest in the archive is driven by a strong desire to examine the temporal and spatial mechanisms that have delivered us to a “posthistorical” moment of contemporaneity. In this context, contemporary artists have started to revisit the colonial archives (Demos 2013). Such returns a…
The Densities of Modernism
This essay looks at the career of pioneering Senegalese painter Iba N'Diaye and his relation to now well-established narratives of modernism in Senegal. Typical accounts of the mid-twentieth century equate the modern with the cultural patronage, Négritude writings, and state-sponsored visual arts movement that flourished under the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. N'Diaye, as one of the first instructors at an art academy founded…
Les Chers Enfants' sans Papa
Journal Article ‘Les Chers Enfants’ sans Papa Get access ELIZABETH HARNEY ELIZABETH HARNEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.1.42 Published: 01 March 1996
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art
September 01 2007 Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art Christine Mullen Kreamer, Christine Mullen Kreamer CHRISTINE MULLEN KREAMER is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mary Nooter Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts MARY (POLLY) NOOTER ROBERTS is deputy director and chief curator at the Fowl…
Rhythm as the Architecture of Being: Reflections on a Black Soul
This article explores the circumstances under which Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet‐philosopher and first president of Senegal, developed a theory of racial belonging, situating the black soul within experiences of modernity. This article addresses the distinctiveness of Senghor’s Negritude, focusing attention on the complex, uneasy relationship between often racist European thinking on Africa and the means by which Senghor, as a pan‐Africanist and a…
Les Arts Premiers” in Paris: Le Monument De l'Autre
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
Les Chers Enfants' sans Papa
Journal Article ‘Les Chers Enfants’ sans Papa Get access ELIZABETH HARNEY ELIZABETH HARNEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.1.42 Published: 01 March 1996
The Art of Mor Faye
Transforming the Crown. African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996
Arts and Politics in Senegal 1960–1996
Other| May 01 1999 ARTS AND POLITICS IN SENEGAL 1960–1996 Elizabeth Harney Elizabeth Harney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 70. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10-1-70 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elizabeth Harney; ARTS AND POLITICS IN SENEGAL 1960–1996. Nka 1 May 1999; 1999 (10): 70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10-1-70 Download citation file: …
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
Viyé Diba: Profound Beauty
The Ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile
Alors que les historiens de l'art africain s'interessent de plus en plus a l'art africain contemporain, il est fondamental de reexaminer les contributions pionieres d'artistes, de patrons et d'activistes culturels qui ont opere dans l'immediat de la periode post-independance. L'une de ces premieres matrices artistiques fut le milieu autour de l'Ecole de Dakar, qui a joue un role critique dans la definition de l'art moderne et de la figure de l'ar…
National Museum of African Art
In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal's first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well-funded system for nurturing their work. In questio…
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
Les Arts Premiers” in Paris: Le Monument De l'Autre
Painting Fictions/Painting History: Modernist Pioneers at Senegal's Ecole Des Arts: [With Commentary]
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art
September 01 2007 Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art Christine Mullen Kreamer, Christine Mullen Kreamer CHRISTINE MULLEN KREAMER is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mary Nooter Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts MARY (POLLY) NOOTER ROBERTS is deputy director and chief curator at the Fowl…
Exhibition Reviews
Rhythm as the Architecture of Being: Reflections on a Black Soul
This article explores the circumstances under which Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet‐philosopher and first president of Senegal, developed a theory of racial belonging, situating the black soul within experiences of modernity. This article addresses the distinctiveness of Senghor’s Negritude, focusing attention on the complex, uneasy relationship between often racist European thinking on Africa and the means by which Senghor, as a pan‐Africanist and a…
Postcolonial Agitations: Avant-Gardism in Dakar and London
This article questions the applicability of received theories of the avant-garde to artistic practices in postcolonial Africa. In particular, it looks at the politics of exhibition and reception of two vanguard groupings operating in Senegal, one in the 1970s, another in the present day, that have been presented within major forums celebrating global art in the neoliberal era. As complex mixes of indigenous and global forms and ideas, these pract…
The Densities of Modernism
This essay looks at the career of pioneering Senegalese painter Iba N'Diaye and his relation to now well-established narratives of modernism in Senegal. Typical accounts of the mid-twentieth century equate the modern with the cultural patronage, Négritude writings, and state-sponsored visual arts movement that flourished under the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor. N'Diaye, as one of the first instructors at an art academy founded…
Art from the Archive
Mbembe (2010) have struggled to rethink African subjectivity and define a register that does not reduce the continent to eternal suffering or victimhood. The current interest in the archive is driven by a strong desire to examine the temporal and spatial mechanisms that have delivered us to a “posthistorical” moment of contemporaneity. In this context, contemporary artists have started to revisit the colonial archives (Demos 2013). Such returns a…
Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism
The Persistence of Primitivism and the Debt Collectors
As the discipline of Art History increasingly aims to decolonize the gaze, questions have become paramount around cross-cultural influence and indebtedness, the traffic and translation of forms and ideas in the colonial modern era, and the mechanisms of postcolonial retrospection. Harney addresses these questions and the resonances of aesthetic primitivism in scholarship on African and diasporic modernisms and global contemporary artistic practic…
Narratives of a reluctant modernist: Rethinking William Fagg’s Africa
Art (20 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Art history (10 works) · History (10 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Performance art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)