Collier Media Primitivism

Technological Art in Africa
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1231-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas

Delinda Collier finds alternative concepts of mediation in African art by closely engaging with electricity-based works since 1944.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collier, Delinda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Afrikanische Kunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. African Art History and the Medium Concept 1
1. Film as Light, Film as Indigenous 31
2. Electronic Sound as Trance ad Resonance 61
3. The Song as Private Property 93
4. Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction 119
5. "The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough" 153
6. The Seed and the Field 183
Afterword 211
Notes 215
Bibliography 237
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Delinda Collier is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art.