Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1

Cover: 9781478031529 | Selected Writings, Volume 1 | Toward a New African Art Discourse

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Beschreibung

Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Okwui Enwezor that demonstrates his tireless efforts to decolonize the global contemporary art world.

Über den Autor

Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and coauthor of numerous books and exhibition catalogs.

Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor at Large, The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, Sharjah.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Foreword / Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation xv
Advisory Editors’ Preface / Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction to Okwui Enwezor’s Diasporic Imagination / Terry Smith 1
1. Redrawing Boundaries: Toward a New African Art Discourse (1994) 15
2. The Ruined City: Desolation, Rapture, and Georges AdÉagbo (1996) 30
3. The Body in Question. Whose Body? Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1995) 38
4. Ellen Gallagher (1996) 45
5. Colonial Imaginary, Tropes of Disruption: History, Culture, and Representation in the Works of African Photographers (1996) / Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya 50
6. Travel Notes: Living, Working, and Traveling in a Restless World (1997) 99
7. A Question of Place: Revisions, Reassessments, Diaspora (1997) 117
8. Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes of “African” Conceptualism (1999) 130
9. Between Worlds: Postmodernism and African Artists in the Western Metropolis (1995–96) 149
10. The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 (2001) 180
11. The Black Box (2002) 202
12. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition (2003) 236
13. Mega-exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form (2003–4) 269
14. Repetition and Differentiation: Lorna Simpson’s Iconography of the Racial Sublime (2006) 299
15. Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (2006) 339
Bibliography of Published Works by Okwui Enwezor / Compiled by Ilhan Ozan 403
Index 425

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Antiquitäten
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478031529
ISBN-10:	1478031522
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Enwezor, Okwui
Redaktion:	Smith, Terry
Hersteller:	MNG University Presses Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	72 color illustrations
Maße:	252 x 175 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Okwui Enwezor
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.08.2025
Gewicht:	1,18 kg