Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Okwui Enwezor that demonstrates his tireless efforts to decolonize the global contemporary art world.
Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Okwui Enwezor that demonstrates his tireless efforts to decolonize the global contemporary art world.
Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and coauthor of numerous books and exhibition catalogs. Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor at Large, The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, Sharjah.
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List of Illustrations ix Foreword / Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation xv Advisory Editors’ Preface / Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu xix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction to Okwui Enwezor’s Diasporic Imagination / Terry Smith 1 1. Redrawing Boundaries: Toward a New African Art Discourse (1994) 15 2. The Ruined City: Desolation, Rapture, and Georges AdÉagbo (1996) 30 3. The Body in Question. Whose Body? Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1995) 38 4. Ellen Gallagher (1996) 45 5. Colonial Imaginary, Tropes of Disruption: History, Culture, and Representation in the Works of African Photographers (1996) / Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya 50 6. Travel Notes: Living, Working, and Traveling in a Restless World (1997) 99 7. A Question of Place: Revisions, Reassessments, Diaspora (1997) 117 8. Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes of “African” Conceptualism (1999) 130 9. Between Worlds: Postmodernism and African Artists in the Western Metropolis (1995–96) 149 10. The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 (2001) 180 11. The Black Box (2002) 202 12. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition (2003) 236 13. Mega-exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form (2003–4) 269 14. Repetition and Differentiation: Lorna Simpson’s Iconography of the Racial Sublime (2006) 299 15. Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (2006) 339 Bibliography of Published Works by Okwui Enwezor / Compiled by Ilhan Ozan 403 Index 425
List of Illustrations ix Foreword / Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation xv Advisory Editors’ Preface / Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu xix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction to Okwui Enwezor’s Diasporic Imagination / Terry Smith 1 1. Redrawing Boundaries: Toward a New African Art Discourse (1994) 15 2. The Ruined City: Desolation, Rapture, and Georges AdÉagbo (1996) 30 3. The Body in Question. Whose Body? Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1995) 38 4. Ellen Gallagher (1996) 45 5. Colonial Imaginary, Tropes of Disruption: History, Culture, and Representation in the Works of African Photographers (1996) / Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya 50 6. Travel Notes: Living, Working, and Traveling in a Restless World (1997) 99 7. A Question of Place: Revisions, Reassessments, Diaspora (1997) 117 8. Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes of “African” Conceptualism (1999) 130 9. Between Worlds: Postmodernism and African Artists in the Western Metropolis (1995–96) 149 10. The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 (2001) 180 11. The Black Box (2002) 202 12. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition (2003) 236 13. Mega-exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form (2003–4) 269 14. Repetition and Differentiation: Lorna Simpson’s Iconography of the Racial Sublime (2006) 299 15. Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (2006) 339 Bibliography of Published Works by Okwui Enwezor / Compiled by Ilhan Ozan 403 Index 425
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