@article{349120,
      author = {Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349120},
      title = {Contemporary African art /},
      publisher = {Thames and Hudson,},
      abstract = {This pioneering history examines the major themes and  accomplishments in African art from the past fifty years,  achieving an impressive balance between the critical  reexamination of frequently discussed artists, groups and  workshops and the introduction of less publicized or more  recent material. Postcolonial art in Africa has built  seamlessly upon already existing structures in which the  older, precolonial and colonial genres of African art were  made. It is in this sense, and in the habits and attitudes  of artists towards making art, rather than in any adherence  to a particular style, medium, technique, or thematic  range, that the art is recognizably African. Beginning in  the early 1950s, the transformations in patronage, training  and literacy brought about the birth of new genres which  have been propelled onto a world stage. This critical  history examines the major themes and accomplishments in  African art from the past fifty years, achieving an  impressive balance between the critical reexamination of  frequently discussed artists, groups, and workshops and the  introduction of less publicized or more recent material.  Author has taught, curated, and carried out extensive filed  research in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya, and has made  briefer research trips to nine other African countries for  her research.},
      recid = {349120},
      pages = {224 p. :},
      address = {New York, N.Y. :},
      year = {2000},
}