Making Art in Africa 1960-2010
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 31602
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Lund Humphries
- ISBN
- 9781848221512
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/74413
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- This book is the result of a five-year research project led by Polly Savage, and commissioned by Robert Loder CBE (co-founder of Triangle Arts). The principal objective of the project was to gather oral histories from leading artists and curators working in Africa between 1960 and 2010, using works from the Triangle archive as a starting point for discussion. To this end, Savage conducted eight months’ fieldwork in eleven African countries, carrying out audio interviews with 125 participants. Elsbeth Court and Atta Kwami conducted a further five interviews in Nigeria and Ghana. Savage then curated and edited the interview transcripts (selecting 65 for publication), commissioned and edited introductory texts (from Loder, Picton and Caro), compiled reference appendices (Triangle workshops lists and further reading) and authored a range of supporting texts. These included a 1250-word introduction, art historical timelines for twelve African cities, biographical introductions and footnotes for each of the 65 interviews, and extended captions to many of the 256 illustrations.
As a multi-vocal rejoinder to Euro-American surveys of ‘African Art’, it is the only known publication which compiles first-hand accounts from artists working in Africa during this period. This provides both primary material for future research, as well as a different model for art historical research - one which foregrounds the voice of the artist in a field where they are so often spoken for.
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