The De-Africanization of African Art: Towards Post-African Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781032029542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 140 str.

Denis Ekpo; Pfunzo Sidogi

Opis

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage.

Spis treści

Preface: Pfunzo Sidogi 1: Africa Mis-Travelling to Modernity: From Modern African Art to African Modernism Denis Ekpo 2: Manifesto for Post-African Art Denis Ekpo 3: The New African Movement and the Artists it Inspired: The Early Post-Africanists Pfunzo Sidogi 4: Africanity, Litigation Aesthetics, and Openness to Being Chielozona Eze 5: Post-Africanism as Fluid, Feminist and Agentic Alterity Runette Kruger 6: The Ruses of the Afrophilia Condition Thabang Molatelo Monoa