Media Primitivism - Technological Art in Africa (Paperback)

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh's Ta'abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cisse's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extractive mining and electricity. Collier reorients modern African art within a larger constellation of philosophies of aesthetics and technology, demonstrating how pivotal artworks transcend the distinctions between the constructed and the elemental, thereby expanding ideas about mediation and about what African art can do.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Delinda Collier
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0969-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
LSN:	1-4780-0969-1
Barcode:	9781478009696

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