{"product_id":"african-art-interviews-narratives-bodies-of-knowledge-at-work-paperback-softback-9780253006912","title":"African Art, Interviews, Narratives; Bodies of Knowledge at Work (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253006912","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican Art, Interviews, Narratives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBodies of Knowledge at Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoanna Grabski (Author), Carol Magee (Author), Patrick McNaughton (Contributions by), Joseph F. Jordan (Contributions by), Silvia Forni (Contributions by), Akinbode Akinbiyi (Contributions by), Kim Miller (Contributions by), Andrea E. Frohne (Contributions by), Mary Jo Arnoldi (Contributions by), Christine Mullen Kreamer (Contributions by), Allan deSouza (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253006912\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 12 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.295 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book enhances our appreciation for interviews as a research tool and cautions us to use this tool with greater awareness of its power to shape our subjects.\"—Victoria Rovine, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Florida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"African Art, Interviews, Narratives . . . is a highly reflective collection of essays about the work of constructing art history out of interviews. Designed to unsettle and open up the relationship between interviews and scholarship, it speaks to the work of anthropology by aiming to better understand the nature of the interview process itself, how we produce and convey meanings from interviews and related documents.  While it will be of particular interest to anthropologists working as museum curators, it will be equally useful to any professional whose craft largely depends upon interviews.\"—\u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In these essays, one hears the narratives and learns the perspectives of a diverse group of people that greatly illuminate both meaning and intent.\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"African Art, Interviews, Narratives provides scholars the chance to reexamine the role of the interviewer, interlocutor, and art historian when making printed text from recorded interviews.\"—\u003ci\u003eOral History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previous uses of interview and provoke alternative understandings of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Work of Interviews \u003cbr\u003e Carol Magee and Joanna Grabski\u003cbr\u003e 1. Talking to People about Art\u003cbr\u003e Patrick McNaughton \u003cbr\u003e 2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence \u003cbr\u003e Joanna Grabski \u003cbr\u003e 3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Jordan\u003cbr\u003e 4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations \u003cbr\u003e Carol Magee \u003cbr\u003e 5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona \u003cbr\u003e Silvia Forni \u003cbr\u003e 6. Interview—Akinbode Akinbiyi \u003cbr\u003e Akinbode Akinbiyi \u003cbr\u003e 7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women \u003cbr\u003e Kim Miller \u003cbr\u003e 8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final Monument\u003cbr\u003e Andrea E. Frohne \u003cbr\u003e 9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian Masquerade\u003cbr\u003e Mary Jo Arnoldi \u003cbr\u003e 10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-Representation\u003cbr\u003e Christine Mullen Kreamer\u003cbr\u003e 11. Undisciplined Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Allan deSouza and Allyson Purpura\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Interlocutors\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523560042776,"sku":"9780253006912","price":20.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/african-art-interviews-narratives-bodies-of-knowledge-at-work-paperback-softback-9780253006912","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}