Déborder la Négritude is a tremendously welcome anthology on twentieth century Senegalese art. It introduces French audiences to research by several Anglophone scholars, whose work appears in dialogue with European and Senegalese scholars. The book further presents several significant Senegalese artists in their own words through interviews conducted with them between the years of 2003 and 2019. Presented in French with several essays translated from the English by Zoé Jourdain, this book presents Senegalese, French, and North American viewpoints on Senegalese postcolonial art in equitable dialogue. The book traces key movements from the 1960s through their interpretation by artists of subsequent generations, making a strong contribution to scholarship of Senegalese art by dismantling stereotypes associated with the well-studied Ecole de Dakar artists and the first generation of teachers/scholars at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts du Senegal. It further presents the important work being done by subsequent generations of artists working...
Déborder la Négritude: Arts, politique et société à Dakar
Susan Kart is Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design and the Africana Studies Program at Lehigh University. She publishes on the arts of Francophone West Africa, the exhibition and display of African objects, and anticolonial movements in twentieth–twenty-first century African art histories. [email protected].
Susan Kart is Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design and the Africana Studies Program at Lehigh University. She publishes on the arts of Francophone West Africa, the exhibition and display of African objects, and anticolonial movements in twentieth–twenty-first century African art histories. [email protected].
Susan Kart; Déborder la Négritude: Arts, politique et société à Dakar. African Arts 2021; 54 (3): 91–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00605
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