Notes on African Art, History, and Diasporas Within
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9024614 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Peffer (0000-0002-6244-952X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 70-96 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9933 • E-ISSN: 1937-2108 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/afar.2005.38.4.70 |
| OpenAlex | W2090120123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
hat is Afri can time? Or perhaps we should ask instead, What time w is Africa's? Is it now? Has it passed? Where, and when, is African art history? In his 1984 book Art History in Africa, the venerable historian of Central Africa, Jan Vansina, famously chided his colleagues for being too shallow when it came to studying the art of the continent. Again, at the land mark 1987 symposium at the National Mu seum of African Art, African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline, Henry Drewal also noted that history was perhaps the most neglected aspect of the study of Af rican art. Almost two decades later, how has this situation changed? In what fol lows I highlight some of the more strident issues relating to the continued neglect of the historical study of African art, and I suggest a method for addressing the prob lem by considering visual objects in, and as, diasporas
Geography · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
African Religions and Art in the Americas
Communicating Africanness Through a Content Analysis of Music, Dance, Visual Arts and Literary Works of African Blacks in the Diaspora
In the diaspora, not dead
Reflections on Trans* & Taxonomy (with Neo Musangi)
Beyond Single Stories
Primitivism reconsidered (Part 1)
Challenging the Dead Hand of the Museum Display
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |