Postcolonial Agitations
Avant-Gardism in Dakar and London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5154409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Harney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 731-751 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2010.0039 |
| OpenAlex | W2153512863 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
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 practices address multilayered histories of interaction and imbrication of cultures and challenge pat assumptions of the traditional avant-garde's parameters
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Exhibition · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations) · Sociology · Vanguard · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Law
Modernity at large
After the Great Divide
Questions Of Modernity
The Wretched of the Earth
Local Histories/Global Designs
The theory of the avant‐garde
The Spectacular Difference of Documenta XI
The Glocal and the Singuniversal
Art and art from Africa
The Theory of the Avant-Garde
The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud
Urban Claims and Visual Sources in the Making of Dakar's Art World City
The Postcolonial Constellation
Returning the Curve
Recycled, Re-Seen
Art and Resistance
The Primary Colors for the Second Time
What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde
The Search for Tradition
The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |