Contemporary Art in Africa

For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. "The Short Century" is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photography, literature, theatre, architecture, music and film. "The Short Century" includes the works of over 50 artists from the paintings of Mancona and Sekoto during the '50s, through the drawings and theatre projects of William Kentridge up to the installations and video works of Kay Hassan and Oladele A. Bamgboye. The great writers of the continent - Soyinka, Senghor and Cesaire amongst others - Africa's filmmakers, architects and musicians, all of whom left their mark on the process of decolonization, are studied here in depth. Renowned historians and cultural philosophers discuss the background of developments and analyze the ideological strategies employed by Western colonial powers to preserve their grip on African countries and peoples. A chapter on photojournalism supplemented by a detailed chronology of events and political movements presents the main stages of Africa's political history. A comprehensive anthology in the appendix contains some 30 historical documents, such as essays, speeches and political manifestos, shedding light on the key issues of the period.

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994

Contemporary African Art

Archive (re)mix: vues d'Afrique

La numerisation paracheve la reproductibilite qui caracterisait deja les techniques mecaniques et analogiques. A l'aide des reflexions esthetiques de Walter Benjamin sur ce sujet, nous montrons que la numerisation bouleverse nos rapports entre sensible et intelligible, et notre relation au temps et a l'archive. Ces documents sont oeuvres en un sens nouveau, dans la mesure ou les conditions de reception collective, mais aussi la figure politique de l'auteur, se transforment. Une situation complexe s'ouvre, faite de possibilites de creation nouvelles, de subversion de la culture traditionnelle et de nouvelles formes de valorisation editoriale.

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African Modernism has been defined by scholars as a distinct period in African art history, ranging roughly from the early 1920s through the late 1980s (e.g. Deliss, 1995; Hug, 1997; Grabski-Ochsne...

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