Ex Africa (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2021-01-11
Förlag
Gallimard
Illustratör/Fotograf
200 colour
Illustrationer
200 colour
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9782072894527

Ex Africa

Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-01-11
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The exhibition aims to show the relationships that exist today and since the end of the 20th century between contemporary and ancient African arts. The notion of primitivism as it was enunciated in 1984 in the exhibition Primitivism at MoMA, which locked the arts of Africa into a subjection to the idea of modern Western art and into the past is definitively over: ideas and forms specific to these arts are now more alive than ever. The catalogue will present the Work of the 20 artists exhibited, together with sketches and photographies to help understand the scope of their work and to go further. It will contain individual interviews which each artist.The exhibition aims to show the relationships that exist today and since the end of the 20th century between contemporary and ancient African arts. The notion of primitivism as it was enunciated in 1984 in the exhibition Primitivism at MoMA, which locked the arts of Africa into a subjection to the idea of modern Western art and into the past is definitively over: ideas and forms specific to these arts are now more alive than ever. The catalog will present the Work of the 20 artists exhibited, together with sketches and photographies to help understand the scope of their work and to go further. It will contain individual interviews which each artist.
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Philippe Dagen is an art critic for newspaper Le Monde and Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is professor of philosophy and head of the Institute of African studies at Columbia University, New York.