Western Frontiers of African Art

Western Frontiers of African Art

by Moyo Okediji
Western Frontiers of African Art

Western Frontiers of African Art

by Moyo Okediji

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Overview

Western Frontiers of African Art navigates the problems and prospects of prometheusis in creative cultural productions. Artists, writers, musicians, and other creative practitioners share icons, ideas, images, and paraphernalia across cultures, mediums, and disciplines in many ways including borrowing, copying, adoption, adaptation, abbreviation, distortion, and even outright pilfering. Their reasons for sharing creative elements range from admiration to subversion, pedagogical innovation, criticism, hegemony, revenge, anger, fear, malice, and even pathology. Once shared these artistic materials become links and crossroads that complicate creativity and culture with prometheusis. But what is prometheusis? How does it work and how is it evaluated? Drawing on the visual arts, this book elaborates on prometheusis as a general theory of cultural exchange, productivity, and analysis. Examples focus on theintersections and frontiers of western modernity and African art.

Moyo Okediji is Director of the Center for Art of Africa and its Diasporas at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books on African art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580463706
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Series: ISSN , #53
Pages: 354
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations x

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 Triangular Landscape: Renaming the Boundaries 14

2 Homoerotic African Art: Genital Rites, Blood, and Dark Secrets 30

3 Transgressive Pictures: Feminism, Pathology, and Poverty 66

4 Gendered Triangulation: Anger, Rage, and Dislocation 103

5 Hybrid Body: White Nude, Black Myth 124

6 Words and Images: The Meaning of Meaninglessness 147

7 Semioptic Equations: The Crossroads of Arrowhead Modernity 176

8 Twin Visions: Hybrid Colon and Semicolon 201

9 Triangulated Worlds: Western Modernity, African Postcoloniality 236

10 Semiographic Hybridity: Writing with Images 270

Notes 291

Bibliography 309

Index 321

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