AAAS/FA-74B Introduction to African Art

Twenty-two essays from artists, art historians, film historians, philosophers, and art critics addressing theory and art practices in Africa and internationally, with an emphasis on globalism, cultural nomadism, and hybridity.

Overview of the multiplicity and diversity of artistic production in Africa in the last half of the twentieth century. Avoiding rigid categories, Kasfir frames her discussions around the themes of art training, patronage, commodification, nationalism, and globalization.

Publication by Revue Noire includes fifty short essays that give an overview of contemporary African art at the end of the twentieth century.

Exhibition catalog organizes the discussion of contemporary African art into five broad categories: traditional art, new functional art, urban art, international art, and extinct art

Free digitized exhibition catalog from the Africa Center, (formerly the Museum for African Art), New York: