Contemporary African Art since 1980 - lecture by Okwui Enwezor

Africa The Book, the Authors and the Lecture 27 Apr. 2010

Yinka Shonibare, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Africa) - detail, 2008, copyright Damiani Editore

More information on Contemporary African Art since 1980, the authors Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, and the lecture Okwui Enwezor held in Amsterdam.
Contemporary African Art since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of more than 200 contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent: from the end of the postcolonial utopias of the sixties during the 1980s to the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural shifts incited by globalization.

Authors: Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu
ISBN 978-88-6208-092-7
pages: 368
illustrations: 400
binding: paperback
EUR 50.00
Damiani Editore

Okwui Enwezor, a leading curator and scholar of contemporary art, is the former Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, and founding publisher and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.
Chika Okeke-Agulu is Assistant Professor of Art and Archeology and African American Studies at Princeton University, and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.

The lecture took place January 21 2010 at De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. It was organised by the Prince Claus Fund.
Almost all illustrations in this Africaserver special are taken from Contemporary African Art since 1980, with the kindly granted permission of Damiani Editore. Copyright for the illustrations remains with Damiani Editore and the artists. For the few pictures from other sources, the source is mentioned in the picture caption.


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