02307cam a2200289 i 4500 295903194 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 090514s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9788862080927 pbk. $60.00 8862080921 pbk. $60.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Enwezor, Okwui. Contemporary African art since 1980 [BOOK] / Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu. [Bologna, Italy : Damiani, 2009. 367 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-359) and index. Situating contemporary African art : introduction -- Frames of reference : between postcolonial utopia and postcolonial realism -- Networks of practice : globalization, geopolitics, geopoetics -- Politics, culture, critique -- Archive, documentary, memory -- Abstraction, figuration, and subjectivity -- The body politic : difference, gender, sexuality -- Work/plates. Survey of the work of 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 since the past 30 years.... Organized in chronological order, the book covers all major artistic mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, drawing, collage.... Presents examples of ... work by more than 160 African artists.... [I]ncludes Georges Adeagbo Tayo Adenaike, Ghada Amer, El Anatsui, Kader Attia, Luis Basto, Candice Breitz, Moustapha Dimé, Marlene Dumas, Victor Ekpuk, Samu el Fosso, Jak Katarikawe, William Kentridge, Rachid Koraichi, Mona Mazouk, Julie Mehretu, Nandipha Mntambo, Hassan Musa, Donald Odita, Iba Ndiaye, Richard Onyango, Ibrahim El Salahi, Issa Samb, Cheri Samba, Ousmane Sembene, Yinka Shonibare, Barthelemy Toguo, Obiora Udechukwu, and Sue Williamson.--From publisher description. 20100106. Art, African 20th century. Art, African 21st century. Okeke-Agulu, Chika.