Sarah Nuttall

Beautiful/Ugly

African and Diaspora Aesthetics
Herausgeber: Nuttall, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays that tackles the question of aesthetics in contemporary Africa and in the African diaspora by considering the fraught and interdependent relationship between beauty and ugliness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 180mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339076
• ISBN-10: 0822339072
• Artikelnr.: 22464496

Autorenporträt

Sarah Nuttall, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking Beauty / Sarah Nuttall 6
Picasso, Africa and the Schemata of Difference / Simon Gikanki 30
Variations on the Beautiful in Congolese Worlds of Sound / Achille Mbembe
94
Two Thoughts of Drawing Beauty / William Kentridge 94
The Place of Beauty: Reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita
Barnard 102
Quille Liberté: Art, Beauty and the Grammars of Resistance in Doula /
Dominique Malaquais 122
Fresh Stories / Pippa Stein 164
The Love of the Body: Ousmane Sow and Beauty / Els van der Plas 188
Inheritance / Mark Gevisser 204
Let's Eat: Banquet Aesthetics and Social Epicurism / Célestin Monga 224
Let's Cook / François Vergès 240
On the Slipperiness of Food / Cheryl-Ann Michael 256
Afro-Aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho 266
Yorùbá Aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic Imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke 290
Urban Imaging: The Friche Waiting to Happen / Rodney Place 316
Things Ugly: Ghanaian Popular Painting / Michelle Gilbert 340
Two Stories: Old Man with Garden at the Rear End of Time and The Fat Indian
Girl / Mia Couto 372
Seeing the Familiar: Notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr 384
Notes 392
Index 409