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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788677803321

Titolo

African art, interviews, narratives [[electronic resource] ] : bodies of knowledge at work / / edited by Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-253-00699-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages)

Collana

African Expressive Cultures.

Altri autori (Persone)

GrabskiJoanna

MageeCarol L

Disciplina

709.6

Soggetti

Art, African

Artists

Art museum curators

Art historians

Anthropologists

Africa

Afrika

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Work of Interviews; 1. Talking to People about Art; 2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence; 3. Can the Artist Speak?: Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance; 4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations; 5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona; 6. Interview: Akinbode Akinbiyi

7. Interweaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in New York City: The Final Monument; 9. Who Owns the Past?: Constructing an Art History of a Malian Masquerade; 10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-Representation; 11. Undisciplined Knowledge; Appendix: Interlocutors; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and



how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previous uses of interview and provoke alternative understandings of art.