{"product_id":"in-senghors-shadow-art-politics-and-the-avant-garde-in-senegal-1960-1995-paperback-softback-9780822333951","title":"In Senghor's Shadow; Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822333951","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Senghor's Shadow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArt, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Harney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822333951\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 November 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 14 color photos, 78 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm, 0.522 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\u003cdiv\u003e“Over the last three decades the study of modern and contemporary African art has moved inexorably into the mainstream of art history where it rightfully belongs. Elizabeth Harney’s scintillating study of modernism, modernity, the avant-garde, and the African imagination not only contributes to but enlarges the discursive and historiographic borders of the ‘new art history.’ Her detailed and beautifully written work provides a guiding insight into the centrality of Negritude in any history of modernism. This book is an invaluable resource for all those interested in African art history and its contributions to the history of the modernist avant-garde.”-Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director of Documenta 11 and publisher and founder of \u003ci\u003eNka: Journal of Contemporary African Art\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“There is no book on any contemporary African art that even comes close to the richness and sophistication of this text.”-Christopher Steiner, author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Art in Transit\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIn Senghor’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of LÉopold SÉdar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well-funded system for nurturing their work. In questioning the canon of art produced under his aegis-known as the Ecole de Dakar-Harney reconsiders Senghor’s Negritude philosophy, his desire to express Senegal’s postcolonial national identity through art, and the system of art schools and exhibits he developed. She expands scholarship on global modernisms by highlighting the distinctive cultural history that shaped Senegalese modernism and the complex and often contradictory choices made by its early artists.\u003cp\u003eHeavily illustrated with nearly one hundred images, including some in color, \u003ci\u003eIn Senghor’s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the work of a range of Senegalese artists, including painters, muralists, sculptors, and performance-based groups-from those who worked at the height of Senghor’s patronage system to those who graduated from art school in the early 1990s. Harney reveals how, in the 1970s, avant-gardists contested Negritude beliefs by breaking out of established artistic forms. During the 1980s and 1990s, artists such as Moustapha DimÉ, Germaine Anta Gaye, and Kan-Si engaged with avant-garde methods and local artistic forms to challenge both Senghor’s legacy and the broader art world’s understandings of cultural syncretism. Ultimately, Harney’s work illuminates the production and reception of modern Senegalese art within the global arena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations ix \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xvii \u003cbr\u003e Preface xxi \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rhythm as the Architecture of Being: Reflections on un \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eAcirc\u003cbr\u003eme NÈ\u003cbr\u003egre 19\u003cbr\u003e 2. The \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eEacute\u003cbr\u003ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile 49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Laboratories of Avant-Gardism 105\u003cbr\u003e 4. After the Avant-Garde 149\u003cbr\u003e 5. Passport to the Global Art World 217\u003cbr\u003e Notes 243\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 289\u003cbr\u003e Index 313\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523255562520,"sku":"9780822333951","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-senghors-shadow-art-politics-and-the-avant-garde-in-senegal-1960-1995-paperback-softback-9780822333951","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}