De l'histoire de l'art en Afrique état des lieux = On art history in Africa : condition report sous la direction de Eva Barois de Caevel, Koyo Kouoh, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
Musée des civilisations noirs (Dakar, Senegal) Search this
Physical description:
179, 167 pages illustrations 24 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès
Place:
Africa
Afrique
Date:
2020
Notes:
Symposium organized by RAW Material Company in collaboration with Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi; held at the Musée des Civilisations noirs, Dakar, Senegal, September 20-22, 2018
Includes communications and discussions from the symposium, as well as later essays and dialogues, and biographies of contributors
Translations into French by Étienne Dobenesque, Gauthier Lesturgie and Émilie Notéris. Translations into English by Michael Angland and Melissa Thackway
AFAMAIN copy 39088020376489 Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment.
Contents:
[French]: Introduction / Koyo Kouoh, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi. Courber l'arc de l'histoire de l'art. Vers un canon de l'art (africain) contemporain : Dak'Art et la fabrique de l'histoire de l'art / Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi -- History of the Main Complaint / Sean O'Toole -- Bis repetita! Dans la boucle du FESTAC / Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent. -- Une histoire de l'art en son lieu. Raconter une histoire visuelle du Bénin : Benin1897.com / Peju Layiwola -- Vivre sur le continent / Marie Helene Pereira et Elizabeth W. Giorgis -- Contextualisation politique de l'art angolais actuel et passé / Suzana Sousa -- Le Village des arts du Sénégal : évolution, révolution / Massamba Mbaye. -- Pour une histoire de l'histoire de l'art africain. Retrouver l'enchantement : pour une étude lucide de la réception des arts de l'Afrique en Occident au début du vingtième siècle / Yaëlle Biro -- Faire voler en éclats les histoires uniques dans la présentation des arts historiques d'Afrique / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi -- Les inquiétudes autour de l'art africain moderne et contemporain : le cas de la RD Congo / Emi Koide -- Korabra : sur le retour, la curation et les histoires transnationales de l'art africain / Paul Goodwin. -- La fabrique de l'histoire de l'art. Many stories matter : RAW Material Company et la RAW Académie / Eva Barois De Caevel -- Et maintenant, c'est quoi la suite? Àsìkò et la décolonisation de l'éducation artistique en Afrique / Iheanyi Onwuegbucha -- Man weh e get ear make e hear : anecdotes sur une sonohistériographie impossible / Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. -- Faire de l'Afrique le lieu de légitimation du savoir. La géopolitique et les arts d'Afrique : créer nos histoires de l'art sur le sol où nous sommes / Ruth Simbao -- Histoires futures / Nana Oforiatta Ayim -- Le Musée des Civilisations noires et l'histoire de l'art / Hamady Bocoum, Malick Ndiaye et Koyo Kouah -- Le mot de la fin. --
[English]: Introduction / Koyo Kouoh, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi. -- Bending the art of art history. Toward a canon of contemporary (African) art : Dak'Art and art history making / Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi -- History of the Main Complaint / Sean O'Toole -- Replicate This! Into the FESTAC loop / Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent. -- Localizing art history. Narrating a visual history of Benin : the Benin1897.com project / Peju Layiwola -- To live on the continent / Marie Helene Pereira and Elizabeth W. Giorgis -- The political contexts of current and past Angolan art / Suzana Sousa -- Senegal's Village des Arts : evolution, revolution / Massamba Mbaye. -- For a history of African art history. Restoring enchantment : for a lucid study of the reception of African arts in the West in the early twentieth century / Yaëlle Biro -- Shattering single stories in the presentation of historical arts of Africa / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi -- Concerns about modern and contemporary African art : the case of DR Congo / Emi Koide -- Korabra : on returning, curating and transnational African art histories / Paul Goodwin. -- Producing art history. Many stories ,atter : RAW Material Company and the RAW Académie / Eva Barois De Caevel -- Now, what next? Àsìkò and the decolonization of art education in Africa / Iheanyi Onwuegbucha -- Man weh e get ear make e hear : anecdotes on an impossible sonohisteriography / Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. -- Situating Africa as the legitimizing site of knowledge. Geopolitics and the arts of Africa : creating our art histories on the ground where we stand / Ruth Simbao -- Future histories / Nana Oforiatta Ayim -- The Museum of Black Civilizations and the history of art / Hamady Bocoum, Malick Ndiaye, and Koyo Kouoh -- The last word
Summary:
African art history continues to be dominated by Western scholars who set the tone for the field. Their cultural frames of reference, which they cast as universal, exert influence on the interpretation of African art, social conditions, and cultural milieu. The knowledge produced in most institutions and academic or independent publishers outside of Africa communicates the extant system in place within those localities. In other words, the audience for such forms of knowledge production is not (necessarily) in Africa. A contradiction is born of this state of affairs; most contemporary Africans do not necessarily recognize themselves in what they are reading, yet they tend to hold this material as truth. To what extent do Africans have a say in the way this knowledge is produced and consumed? What strategies and methodologies exist that counter and rebel against the dominance of a Western academic status quo? These are some of the questions this book examines. The symposium series, Condition Report, hosted by RAW Material Company, Center for Art, Knowledge and Society in Dakar, and various partners, started in 2011. "On Art History in Africa" was its third occurrence. This publication gathers communications and discussions from the symposium, as well as essays and dialogues that happened afterwards. It offers a precise overview of the art history being written today in Africa, of its critique, but also of the art history to come
Topic:
Art, African--Study and teaching--History Search this
