Elizabeth Harney

In Senghor's Shadow

Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of art in post-independence Senegal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333852
• ISBN-10: 0822333856
• Artikelnr.: 13896614

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Harney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto. She was the first curator of contemporary art at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (1999–2003). She is the editor of Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora .

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Preface xxi
Introduction 1
1. Rhythm as the Architecture of Being: Reflections on un Âme Nègre 19
2. The École de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile 49
3. Laboratories of Avant-Gardism 105
4. After the Avant-Garde 149
5. Passport to the Global Art World 217
Notes 243
Bibliography 289
Index 313