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Saffron Books Catalogue

Art Criticism and Africa [1997]

Katy Deepwell (ed) with

Fatma Ismail Afifi, David Koloane, Murray McCartney, Tony Mhonda, Barbara Murray, Everlyn Nicodemus, Olu Oguibe, Chika Okeke, Ola Oloidi, John Picton, Colin Richards, George Shire and Ola Bisi Silva

128pp, 38 illustrations, 16 in colour, 250mm x 210 mm (portrait)

UK price pounds 14.95, overseas 19.95pounds/US$34.00

ISBN 1-872843-13-1 (softback)

Published as part of African Art and Society Series in conjunction with the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Financially assisted by the Arts Council of England (ACE). Series Editor Sajid Rizvi

Focused on contemporary art and art criticism in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt, the book throws 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.

Readership level: General to Professional to Postgraduate

Contents

• Acknowledgments by the Series Editor
• Heather Waddell Tribute to Jock Whittet 1913-1996
• Katy Deepwell Introduction
• Olabisi Silva africa95: Cultural colonialism or cultural celebration
• John Picton Yesterday's cold mashed potatoes
• Everlyn Nicodemus The art critic as advocate
• Ola Oloidi Art criticism in Nigeria, 1920-1996: the development of professionalism in the media and the academy
• Murray McCartney The art critic as advocate: a Zimbabwean perspective
• Barbara Murray Art criticism for whom? The experience of the Gallery magazine in Zimbabwe
• Tony Mhonda Art critic as advocate
• David Koloane Art criticism for whom?
• Colin Richards Peripheral vision: Speculations on art criticism in South Africa
• Chika Okeke Beyond either/or: Towards an art criticism of accommodation
• Fatma Ismail Afifi The Kom Ghorab project in Cairo
• Olu Oguibe Thoughts towards a New Century
• George Shire Art criticism of Africa outside of Africa: A reply to Olu Oguibe
• Contemporary art in Africa A select bibliography
• Tribute to Stephen Williams
• Index
• Order Your Copy
• Introduction by Katy Deepwell
• News and Reviews of Books
• EAR Contents
• Index to EAR Back Issues
• E-mail Saffron Books

Forthcoming Titles in African Art & Society Series

Divisions and Diversions: Visual Arts in post-Apartheid South Africa

John Picton & Jennifer Law, SOAS, University of London (eds)

ISBN 1-872843-12-3

Contents list soon to be available. Publication date, price, other details TBA

Artists and Art Academies in Africa

Elsbeth Court, SOAS, University of London & Salah Hassan, Cornell University, NY (eds)

ISBN 1-872843-19-0

Contents list soon to be available. Publication date, price, other details TBA

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