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Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, *The "Black Art" Renaissance* tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde "discovery" of African sculpture - known then as *art nègre*, or "black art" - eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, "black art" evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the Ecole de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. *The "Black Art" Renaissance* reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.
Art styles --- Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- influence --- primitivism [artistic concept] --- African sculpture styles --- Harlem Renaissance --- Mid-Century Modernist --- Neo-Expressionist --- #breakthecanon --- Picasso, Pablo --- Mancoba, Ernest --- anno 1900-1999
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Photographic portraiture has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Africa, but, from the 19th-century to independence, the thematic scope was largely limited to the sitter's identity and social standing. So widely established is the great African tradition of portrait photography that it has eclipsed the rise of richer and more varied forms of expression that articulate a range of pressing contemporary concerns. Drawing on an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, this book offers a reconsideration of contemporary African photographic portraiture by presenting four photographers - Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Sad̐ou Dicko, and George Osodi - whose concerns range well beyond questions of identity and social standing.
Photography, Artistic --- Portrait photography --- Photography --- Portraiture --- Portraits --- Baloji, Sammy --- Camara, Mohamed, --- Dicko, Saïdou --- Osodi, George, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Portrait photography - Africa --- Baloji, Sammy - Criticism and interpretation --- Camara, Mohamed, - 1983- - Criticism and interpretation --- Dicko, Saïdou - Criticism and interpretation --- Osodi, George, - 1974- - Criticism and interpretation --- Camara, Mohamed, - 1983 --- -Dicko, Saïdou --- Osodi, George, - 1974 --- -Portrait photography --- -Photography, Artistic --- Photography. --- Portrait photography. --- Portraits (Photographie) --- Dicko, Saïdou. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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L'œuvre de l'intellectuel et homme d'État sénégalais Léopold Sédar Senghor (1909-2001) a été largement discuté et commenté par les générations nées au lendemain des indépendances, entre rejets et relectures successives. Aujourd'hui, Senghor est une figure sollicitée par de nombreux intellectuels africains à travers le monde. L'exposition « Senghor et les arts. Réinventer l'universel » se détourne d'un parti-pris hagiographique pour relire les questionnements qui ont habité Senghor il y a plus d'un demi-siècle. Il a affirmé le rôle de l'Afrique dans l'écriture de son histoire, passée comme présente, et a défendu l'idée d'un « rendez-vous du donner et du recevoir », engageant un dialogue avec le reste du monde pour aboutir à une civilisation de l'universel. Ce catalogue a pour ambition de présenter et d'interroger la politique culturelle de Léopold Sédar Senghor mais aussi de construire une sorte de « manuel de la pensée senghorienne » constitué d'essais, de textes d'archives, d'interviews, de photographies inédites et de reproductions d'œuvres d'art qui ont accompagné la vie et l'œuvre de Senghor.
Senghor, Léopold Sédar --- Politics --- Art --- influence --- kunst en politiek --- Senghor, Léopold Sédar --- Senegal
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