Media Primitivism : Technological Art in Africa
Delinda Collier
In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one of the first works of electronic music, Halim El-Dabh's Ta'abir Al-Zaar (1944), and Souleymane Cissé's 1987 film, Yeelen, to contemporary digital art, Collier argues that African media must be understood in relation to other modes of transfer and transmutation that have significant colonial and postcolonial histories, such as extractive mining and electricity. Collier reorients modern African art within a larger constellation of philosophies of aesthetics and technology, demonstrating how pivotal artworks transcend the distinctions between the constructed and the elemental, thereby expanding ideas about mediation and about what African art can do.
年:
2020
出版:
1
出版社:
Duke University Press
语言:
english
页:
289
ISBN 10:
1478012315
ISBN 13:
9781478012313
系列:
The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas Ser.
文件:
PDF, 13.42 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020