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.

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Magnificent Scale / Terry Smith 1
1. The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society (2006) 19
2. Place-Making or in the “Wrong Place”: Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition (2008) 26
3. Archive Fever: Photography between History and the Monument (2008) 50
4. The Subversion of Realism: Likeness, Resemblance, and Invented Lives in Lynette Yaidom-Boakye’s Postportrait Paintings (2010) 103
5. Text, Subtext, Intertext: Painting, Language, and Signifying in the Work of Glenn Ligon (2011) 125
6. Intense Proximity: Concerning the Disappearance of Distance (2012) 150
7. From Screen to Space: Projection and Reanimation in the Early Work of Steve McQueen (2012) 182
8. Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (2013) 205
9. On the Aesthetic and Political Language of Art: A Conversation between Kendell Geers and William Kentridge (2013) 246
10. The State of Things (2015) 271
11. World Platforms, Exhibiting Adjacency, and the Surplus Value of Art (2015) 285
12. The Judgment of Art: Postwar and Artistic Worldliness (2016) 309
13. Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling’s Cognitive Abstraction (2017) 347
14. El Gran EspectÁculo: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Modernity, Modernism (2018) 405
15. The Wreck of Utopia: Alienation and Disalienation in John Akomfrah’s Postcolonial Cinema (2018) 436
16. Landings: Okwui Enwezor in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni (2019) 456
17. Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (2020) 473
Bibliography: Published Writings of Okwui Enwezor / Compiled by llhan Ozan 477
Index 499