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Expanding the Canon: Modern and Contemporary African Art and Visual Culture
UAAC 2009
| Location: | Alberta, Canada |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-06-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-05-05 |
| Announcement ID: |
168501 |
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The discipline of modern and contemporary African art and visual culture has flourished undeniably in recent years alongside growing debates about the contradictions and challenges inherent to the field. As the canon expands, a central question artists and scholars continue to broach is where to situate discussions of modern and contemporary African cultural production within the larger discourse, and specifically what are the effects of excluding African art and visual culture from larger considerations of modernity. Fracturing any sense of a single African aesthetic, this session invites papers that address modern and contemporary African culture, both from and about the continent, that decentralize the dominant historical narrative that privileges the Western European consciousness and its cultural institutions. Papers may include, but are not limited to topics such as: the creation of alternative vantage points for interpretation of African art, visual and material culture; the legacies of seminal exhibitions such as “Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern,” “Magiciens de la Terre,” and “Into the Heart of Africa,” and the contemporary responses to these shows; the formal and conceptual strategies that destabilize the historical concepts of “Africa” and the “West”.
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Brianne Howard
Ph.D candidate, Department of Art
1250 St Mathieu, Apt. 5, Montreal, Qc., H3H 2H8,
6bh12@queensu.ca
Miriam Aronowicz
Ph.D candidate, Department of Art History
University of Toronto
148 Borden Street, Unit B Toronto, ON. M2L 1L4
miriam.aronowicz@utoronto.ca
Email: 6bh12@queensu.ca, miriam.aronowicz@utoronto.ca
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