Fifty years—more or less a generation—is a significant landmark for African Arts. The journal is now an elder, with all of the gravitas that role entails, and yet it is reborn with each new issue. Like all the best elders, African Arts embraces change without adopting the trends of any particular moment. With apologies for the layers of self-referentiality, we note that in his First Word for the first issue in this year's fiftieth anniversary commemoration (vol. 50, no. 1), Tobenna Okwuosa cited Mary Nooter Roberts, who had observed in her own 2005 First Word that African Arts is “synonymous with the study of African art” (Roberts 2005:1). So it is. Indeed, the trajectory of African art history is manifested in the artistic genres, regions, time periods, and thematic concerns that have populated this journal's pages. For young researchers as for prominent scholars, engaging with African Arts is...
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Winter 2017
December 01 2017
Future Thinking: Propositions and Possibilities for African Art History
Lisa Homann,
Lisa Homann
Lisa Homann is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her current research concerns portraiture, artistic innovation, and negotiating creative differences in masquerade arts and practices in Southwestern Burkina Faso. lhomann@uncc.edu
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Carol Magee,
Carol Magee
Carol Magee is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research focuses on African urban photography and sound art that investigates emotional, physical, psychological, or philosophical experiences of place. cmagee@unc.edu
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Victoria L. Rovine
Victoria L. Rovine
Victoria L. Rovine is Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on clothing and textiles in Africa. Her most recent book is African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear (Indiana University Press, 2015), and her current project focuses on textiles and colonialism in French Soudan during the 1930s. vrovine@unc.edu
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Lisa Homann
Lisa Homann is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her current research concerns portraiture, artistic innovation, and negotiating creative differences in masquerade arts and practices in Southwestern Burkina Faso. lhomann@uncc.edu
Carol Magee
Carol Magee is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research focuses on African urban photography and sound art that investigates emotional, physical, psychological, or philosophical experiences of place. cmagee@unc.edu
Victoria L. Rovine
Victoria L. Rovine is Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on clothing and textiles in Africa. Her most recent book is African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear (Indiana University Press, 2015), and her current project focuses on textiles and colonialism in French Soudan during the 1930s. vrovine@unc.edu
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2017 by the Regents of the University of California.
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The Regents of the University of California
African Arts (2017) 50 (4): 1–5.
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Lisa Homann, Carol Magee, Victoria L. Rovine; Future Thinking: Propositions and Possibilities for African Art History. African Arts 2017; 50 (4): 1–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_a_00368
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