The contemporary present and modernist past in postcolonial African art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9364591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ugochukwu-Smooth C Nzewi (Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-234 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2150-0894 • E-ISSN: 2150-0908 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21500894.2013.775899 |
| OpenAlex | W1981224546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
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
Decolonising African vernacular rooted sculptures of selected contemporary Nigerian and South African artists
Obscuring representation
Cosmopolitan Repair
Arrest the dance!”
Big Bird’s minor upset
Communicating creativities
Tendances et Confrontations
Locating Senghor's École de Dakar
African Socialist Cultural Policy
Eastern African migrant ‘modernism
Lagos Art World
World-Systems Analysis
Currents of world-making in contemporary art
One Tribe, One Style? Paradigms in the Historiography of African Art
In Senghor's Shadow
Africa Remix
Modernism and Cultural Politics on East Africa
Contemporary African Art
The Challenge of the Modern
Art in Development
The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria
The Densities of Modernism
African Modernism
Négritude or Black Cultural Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |