Africa explores : 20th century African art / Susan Vogel ; assisted by Ima Ebong ; contributions by Walter E.A. van Beek ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: New York : Center for African Art ; Munich : Prestel-Verlag ; New York City : Distributed in the U.S. of America and Canada by Neues Pub. Co., c1991.Description: 294 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cmISBN: - 3791311433 (cloth)
- 709.6 VOG
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Publication to accompany the exposition Africa explores, held simultaneously at the Center for African Art and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, May 16-Aug. 1991, and later travelling to other venues.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-294) and index.
Contents:-Introduction : digesting the West ; Traditional art : elastic continuum / Susan Vogel -- Enter the bush : a Dogon mask festival / Walter E.A. Van Beck -- New functional art : future traditions ; Urban art : art of the here and now / Susan Vogel -- Painting in Zaire : from the invention of the West to the representation of social self / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- International art : the official story / Susan Vogel -- Negritude : between mask and flag, Senegalese cultural ideology and the "École de Dakar" / Ima Ebong -- Extinct art : inspiration and burden / Susan Vogel -- Afrokitsch / Donald J. Cosentino -- The selfhood of the other : reflections of a westerner on the occasion of an exhibition of contemporary art from Africa / Thomas McEvilley -- "Reprendre" : enunciations and strategies in contemporary African arts / V.Y. Mudimbe.