Authentic/Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art

Testi: Hassan Salah, Enwezor Okwui et al., pagg. 264; 106 COL e 12 BN; rileg. brossura.
Editore: Forum for African Arts,, 2002.

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Against the musty stereotypes and prejudices that still consider Africa a dark continent full of nameless, Third World nations always striving but never managing to catch up with the West, Authentic/Ex-Centric positions Africa as the source of many of the ide as associated with European modernism. From Cubism’s radical abstraction to 70s performance art and its use of ritual, shamanism, and magic, the influence of African art has long been underap-preciated.

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