Focus on African Art, Art History and Art Criticism

Introduction: How does one bridge the gulf between western ideas about Africa and the reality of contemporary art production in Africa? What role does art criticism play in mediating or challenging this gulf? Which histories (of art, of modernism/postmodernism, of nationhood, of pre- or post-colonial periods) and which languages (e g English, Yoruba, Arabic or Shona?) can highlight the developing problematic of contemporary African art? What role can art criticism play in developing new audiences for art? These are some of the questions addressed in Art Criticism and Africa, published as part of Saffron Books' series on African Art and Society.

Art Criticism and Africa brings together some of the most important contemporary writing about contemporary art and art criticism from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt.

Offering quite divergent perspectives on the contemporary situation, the essays in the book throw light on many institutional and administrative issues in contemporary culture: highlighting the role of public and private galleries, art magazines, the press, art schools, groups of artists and critics and the work of government.

Art Criticism and Africa

Edited by Katy Deepwell, former UK President, International Association of Art Critics and Editor, n.paradoxa.

128pp, more than 40 illustrations, 16 in colour.Order your copy.

African Art and Society Series

Series Editor: Sajid Rizvi

ISBN 1-872843-13-1

Published by Saffron Books , Eastern Art Publishing, in conjunction with AICA, International Association of Art Critics.Details and Order Form

Introductory Essay by Katy Deepwell

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