Susan Kart
Biographic Data
| ID | 5165898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Kart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kart |
| SIGNATURE | KART S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Africa Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Déborder la Négritude
Déborder la Négritude is a tremendously welcome anthology on twentieth century Senegalese art. It introduces French audiences to research by several Anglophone scholars, whose work appears in dialogue with European and Senegalese scholars. The book further presents several significant Senegalese artists in their own words through interviews conducted with them between the years of 2003 and 2019. Presented in French with several essays translated …
The Missing Women of Sande
My introduction to the art of Sierra Leone went something like this: Despite the overwhelming presence of African headpieces in the worlds' museums, the masquerade tradition is not widespread across the continent. Of the limited regions in Africa where performances requiring wooden mask headpieces were and are practiced, it is generally a performance of men. Only in West Africa does a different tradition of masked dance take place, where women in…
Murid Methodology
October 01 2020 Murid Methodology: Moustapha Dimé's Figurative Sculptures Susan Kart Susan Kart Susan Kart is an assistant professor at Lehigh University with a joint appointment in the Department of Art, Architecture, and Design and the Africana Studies program. Her research focuses on Senegalese art of the independence period, and the exhibition and display of African art objects. She has curated exhibitions of African art at Smith College, Leh…
La Grande Danse by Moustapha Dimé in Local and Transnational Encounters
In 1995 Moustapha Dimé began creating a novel series of sculptural installations around the theme of ‘The Dance’. Instead of being exclusively hand-carved as were his works from the 1980s, or composed solely from found objects like his objects from the 1990s, the Dance series is a hybrid of both styles. This series not only indicates the circularity and consistency of Dimé's artistic project, but also his desire to inject a Senegalese cultural ph…
Responses to Dak'Art 2008 and “[Dis]placement of National Art to a Transnational Artworld”
September 01 2009 Responses to Dak'Art 2008 and “[Dis]placement of National Art to a Transnational Artworld” Susan Kart, Susan Kart Susan Kart is an assistant professor of art history at Sarah Lawrence College. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie is an associate professor of art history at UC Santa Barbara, founder …
The Missing Women of Sande
My introduction to the art of Sierra Leone went something like this: Despite the overwhelming presence of African headpieces in the worlds' museums, the masquerade tradition is not widespread across the continent. Of the limited regions in Africa where performances requiring wooden mask headpieces were and are practiced, it is generally a performance of men. Only in West Africa does a different tradition of masked dance take place, where women in…
Murid Methodology
October 01 2020 Murid Methodology: Moustapha Dimé's Figurative Sculptures Susan Kart Susan Kart Susan Kart is an assistant professor at Lehigh University with a joint appointment in the Department of Art, Architecture, and Design and the Africana Studies program. Her research focuses on Senegalese art of the independence period, and the exhibition and display of African art objects. She has curated exhibitions of African art at Smith College, Leh…
La Grande Danse by Moustapha Dimé in Local and Transnational Encounters
In 1995 Moustapha Dimé began creating a novel series of sculptural installations around the theme of ‘The Dance’. Instead of being exclusively hand-carved as were his works from the 1980s, or composed solely from found objects like his objects from the 1990s, the Dance series is a hybrid of both styles. This series not only indicates the circularity and consistency of Dimé's artistic project, but also his desire to inject a Senegalese cultural ph…
Responses to Dak'Art 2008 and “[Dis]placement of National Art to a Transnational Artworld”
September 01 2009 Responses to Dak'Art 2008 and “[Dis]placement of National Art to a Transnational Artworld” Susan Kart, Susan Kart Susan Kart is an assistant professor of art history at Sarah Lawrence College. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie is an associate professor of art history at UC Santa Barbara, founder …
La Grande Danse by Moustapha Dimé in Local and Transnational Encounters
In 1995 Moustapha Dimé began creating a novel series of sculptural installations around the theme of ‘The Dance’. Instead of being exclusively hand-carved as were his works from the 1980s, or composed solely from found objects like his objects from the 1990s, the Dance series is a hybrid of both styles. This series not only indicates the circularity and consistency of Dimé's artistic project, but also his desire to inject a Senegalese cultural ph…
The Missing Women of Sande
My introduction to the art of Sierra Leone went something like this: Despite the overwhelming presence of African headpieces in the worlds' museums, the masquerade tradition is not widespread across the continent. Of the limited regions in Africa where performances requiring wooden mask headpieces were and are practiced, it is generally a performance of men. Only in West Africa does a different tradition of masked dance take place, where women in…
Murid Methodology
October 01 2020 Murid Methodology: Moustapha Dimé's Figurative Sculptures Susan Kart Susan Kart Susan Kart is an assistant professor at Lehigh University with a joint appointment in the Department of Art, Architecture, and Design and the Africana Studies program. Her research focuses on Senegalese art of the independence period, and the exhibition and display of African art objects. She has curated exhibitions of African art at Smith College, Leh…
Déborder la Négritude
Déborder la Négritude is a tremendously welcome anthology on twentieth century Senegalese art. It introduces French audiences to research by several Anglophone scholars, whose work appears in dialogue with European and Senegalese scholars. The book further presents several significant Senegalese artists in their own words through interviews conducted with them between the years of 2003 and 2019. Presented in French with several essays translated …
African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Icon (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)