Sidney Kasfir
Biographic Data
| ID | 99643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidney Kasfir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidney |
| FAMILY NAME | Kasfir |
| SIGNATURE | KASFIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Are Biennials the Solution or the Problem for African Art's Global Reach
Politically, the United States and Europe have become deeply polarized between the forces of globalism and a resurgent, antiglobal nationalism, while contemporary art, by contrast, appears to be riding the waves of globalization with little competition from nationalist holdouts.Biennials and other large-scale temporary exhibition projects have become the bellwethers of this globalism in the art world. But they have had many outcomes, foreclosing …
African Art and Agency in the Workshop
The economic, social, and cultural worlds of artists and objects
Visual Cultures
The first collectors of African art and artefacts were nineteenth-century explorers. The second were modern art collectors and dealers, fascinated by an art, primarily sculpture, which was in every way opposite to academic European teaching. As fieldwork expanded the knowledge base of African art and performance, masquerades became a major research subject and vehicle for both African history and social theory. However, African visual culture enc…
Paris Primitive
The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld
September 01 2008 The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld Sidney Kasfir, Sidney Kasfir Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Delinda Collier, Delinda Collier Delinda Collier is a PhD student at Emory University studying Chokwe art, Angolan identity and the Trienal…
African Art and the Colonial Encounter
To help alter and broaden the meaning that some of her western professional colleagues associate with African objects, art historian and curator Kasfir (Emory Univ.) applies and draws lessons from certain anthropological practice from the 1980s and literary theory from the 1990s to two examples of African artifacts. "Sustained fieldwork" undergirds her study of the spears of the pastoralist Samburu of the Rift Valley, in Kenya, East Africa, and o…
In Memoriam
The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld
September 01 2008 The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld Sidney Kasfir, Sidney Kasfir Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Delinda Collier, Delinda Collier Delinda Collier is a PhD student at Emory University studying Chokwe art, Angolan identity and the Trienal…
Are Biennials the Solution or the Problem for African Art's Global Reach
Politically, the United States and Europe have become deeply polarized between the forces of globalism and a resurgent, antiglobal nationalism, while contemporary art, by contrast, appears to be riding the waves of globalization with little competition from nationalist holdouts.Biennials and other large-scale temporary exhibition projects have become the bellwethers of this globalism in the art world. But they have had many outcomes, foreclosing …
Paris Primitive
In Memoriam
African Art and the Colonial Encounter
To help alter and broaden the meaning that some of her western professional colleagues associate with African objects, art historian and curator Kasfir (Emory Univ.) applies and draws lessons from certain anthropological practice from the 1980s and literary theory from the 1990s to two examples of African artifacts. "Sustained fieldwork" undergirds her study of the spears of the pastoralist Samburu of the Rift Valley, in Kenya, East Africa, and o…
The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld
September 01 2008 The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld Sidney Kasfir, Sidney Kasfir Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Delinda Collier, Delinda Collier Delinda Collier is a PhD student at Emory University studying Chokwe art, Angolan identity and the Trienal…
Paris Primitive
African Art and Agency in the Workshop
The economic, social, and cultural worlds of artists and objects
Visual Cultures
The first collectors of African art and artefacts were nineteenth-century explorers. The second were modern art collectors and dealers, fascinated by an art, primarily sculpture, which was in every way opposite to academic European teaching. As fieldwork expanded the knowledge base of African art and performance, masquerades became a major research subject and vehicle for both African history and social theory. However, African visual culture enc…
Are Biennials the Solution or the Problem for African Art's Global Reach
Politically, the United States and Europe have become deeply polarized between the forces of globalism and a resurgent, antiglobal nationalism, while contemporary art, by contrast, appears to be riding the waves of globalization with little competition from nationalist holdouts.Biennials and other large-scale temporary exhibition projects have become the bellwethers of this globalism in the art world. But they have had many outcomes, foreclosing …
Art (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Africa (2 works) · Art, african (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)