Harney / Thomas In Senghor's Shadow

Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8605-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Objects/Histories

A study of art in post-independence Senegal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harney, Elizabeth

Thomas, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Afrikanische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Preface xxi

Introduction 1

1. Rhythm as the Architecture of Being: Reflections on un Âme Nègre 19

2. The École de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile 49

3. Laboratories of Avant-Gardism 105

4. After the Avant-Garde 149

5. Passport to the Global Art World 217

Notes 243

Bibliography 289

Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Harney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto. She was the first curator of contemporary art at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (1999–2003). She is the editor of Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora.