EAN: 9783830945239

VISUAL CULTURES OF AFRICA KARTONIERT (TB)

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa  focusing on the skills
and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to
embodied performances by dancers and storytellers  even re-designed models of Western cars.
Educators  designers  artists  critics  curators  and custodians based both in Africa and in
Europe are configuring spaces for public  private  institutional as well as digital
conversation - whether through pottery or portraiture  furniture or film  shoes or selfies 
buildings or books. Readers are encouraged to question how African visual cultures are both
'in' and 'of'  identifying and confrontational  post- and decolonial  preserved and practised 
old and new  borrowed and authentic  composite and complete  rooted and soaring. Disciplines
being engaged include visual culture studies  media studies  performance studies  orature 
literature  art and design - as well as their histories.The editors Mary Clare Kidenda  Lize
Kriel and Ernst Wagner represent three nodes in the Exploring Visual Cultures north-south
collaborative network: The Technical University of Kenya  the University of Pretoria in South
Africa and Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.

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