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Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art

Salah M. Hassan and Olu Oguibe, Editors

''The book and the art within form a compelling argument that Africa and Africans, far from remaining in some romanticised past, are engaged in a challenging and critical present and future.'' Kira Harris, Black Issues Book Review

Authentic/Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art (2001) posits Africa as the source of many of the ideas associated with European Modernism. From Cubism’s radical abstraction to 1970s performance art and its use of ritual, shamanism and magic, the influence of African art has long been under-appreciated. Published in conjunction with the critically acclaimed exhibition of the same name on the fringes of the 2001 Venice Biennale, Authentic/Ex-centric offers a glimpse of the ways in which African and African diaspora artists have interpreted and translated the aesthetic and social experiences of postcolonial Africa into new idioms of artistic expression, and argues for their proper location in the broad narrative of global conceptualism.

Artists: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba/US),Willem Boshoff (South Africa), Godfried Donkor (Ghana/UK), Rachid Koraïchi (Algeria/France), Berni Searle (South Africa), Zineb Sedira (France/UK), and Yinka Shonibare (UK).

Contributors include: Sally Berger (US), Annie E. Coombes (UK), Rory Doepel (South Africa), Okwui Enwezor (Nigeria/US), Maryline Lostia (France), Gilane Tawadros (Egypt/UK), and Christian Viveros-Fauné (US).

Salah M. Hassan, an art historian and curator, is the chair of the Department of History of Art and an associate professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture, Africana Studies, at Cornell University. Olu Oguibe is an artist, art historian, critic and curator.

 

 

 

status sold out:
reprint rights available
isbn 90 76162 06 9
publishers Forum for African Arts with Prince Claus Fund Library, 2001
paperback, 30 x 24cm, 264 pages.
106 colour and 12 b&w illustrations
price US $ 19.95
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