Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection

The definitive publication commemorating the Chazen Museum of Art’s groundbreaking new collection of contemporary African art and its accompanying exhibition.

Drawing on curator Okwui Enwezor and art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu's observation of an "insistent presence of the human figure in the work of contemporary African artists," Insistent Presence features writing by guest curator Margaret Nagawa that extends existing scholarship on African art. Nagawa’s work explores how artists of today...