Description
Heavily illustrated with nearly one hundred images, including some in color, In Senghor's Shadow surveys the work of a range of Senegalese artists, including painters, muralists, sculptors, and performance-based groups-from those who worked at the height of Senghor's patronage system to those who graduated from art school in the early 1990s. Harney reveals how, in the 1970s, avant-gardists contested Negritude beliefs by breaking out of established artistic forms. During the 1980s and 1990s, artists such as Moustapha Dimé, Germaine Anta Gaye, and Kan-Si engaged with avant-garde methods and local artistic forms to challenge both Senghor's legacy and the broader art world's understandings of cultural syncretism. Ultimately, Harney's work illuminates the production and reception of modern Senegalese art within the global arena.
Author: Elizabeth Harney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/23/2004
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.08w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780822333951
ISBN10: 0822333953
BISAC Categories:
- Art | African
About the Author
Elizabeth Harney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto. She was the first curator of contemporary art at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art (1999-2003). She is the editor of Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora.