The contemporary present and modernist past in postcolonial African art

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ID9364591
AutoresUgochukwu-Smooth C Nzewi (Emory University, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas211-234
Data de publicação2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Art (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2150-0894 • E-ISSN: 2150-0908
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21500894.2013.775899
OpenAlexW1981224546
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas17

This article addresses ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ as two distinct categories in African artistic practices and art history. It engages with exhibitions as sites of knowledge production and examines how they construct narratives of artistic modernism, modernity, and contemporaneity. By focusing on the Tendances et Confrontations exhibition, at the Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Negres Dakar in 1966, and Dak'Art biennials since 1992, it explores the role of the two exhibition platforms in shaping artistic practices and discourse in two moments in African art and history in the last 50 years. The article also places particular emphasis on the interpretation of artworks in Tendances et Confrontations and Dak'Art to outline a transformation in artistic practices and knowledge production

Aesthetics · African art · Art · Art history · Construct (python library · Contemporary art · Epistemology · Exhibition · History of art · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Modern art · Modernism (music · Modernity · Narrative · Performance art · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Architecture · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Philosophy