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The western modernist view continues to influence contemporary art
discourse. "6(0) Ways "interrogates the most fundamental premises
of the modernist approach and casts a new light on a changed
contemporary practice.
Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a
remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa,
Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public
education and fostering innovative anthropological research across
a wide variety of contemporary artistic practices.
Developed through artistic research in the Weltkulturen Museum's
Weltkulturen Labor research lab, "Foreign Exchange" raises
questions about the relationship between the museum's educational
and scientific aims and global trade. Together, essays by
anthropologists, art historians, artists, and curators form an
extended conversation around the historical accumulation and
commodification of artifacts and, in particular, the representation
of the human body in ethnographic photographs. Rounding out the
volume are many previously unpublished photographs of works
discussed. Contributing authors and artist include Peggy Buth,
Minerva Cuevas, Gabriel Gbadamosi, David Lau, Tom McCarthy, David
Weber-Krebs, and Luke Willis-Thompson.
El Hadji Sy is one of the most significant figures in African
contemporary art. Since the late 1970s, the Senegalese artist and
curator has helped shape the country's thriving art scene through
his innovative painting and performance art. But El Sy is also an
internationally recognized activist, having founded the collectives
Laboratoire Agit-Art and Tenq, which aim to create contemporary art
that engages with the country's pressing social and political
issues. The first comprehensive publication on El Sy, this book
places the artist's work in the context of activism in Senegal
since the country gained independence from France in 1960. Included
are critical essays by Hans Belting, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and Pablo
Lafuente who explore post independence aesthetics and the effect of
postwar relations between Germany and Senegal. The critical essays
are supplemented with copious illustrations from the artist's
archive - many never before seen - offering rare insight into
African art before the Global Turn of 1989.
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