Contemporary African Art: Contested terrain and a troubling aesthetics

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Contemporary African Art: Contested terrain and a troubling aesthetics

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Contemporary African Art: Contested terrain and a troubling aesthetics. The PotoPoto Aesthetics Established in 1951 By French Mathematician and amateur artist Pierre Lods. Mode Muntu, Figures carrying water in a fish background, gouache on paper, 1973. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Contemporary African Art:

Contested terrain and a troubling aesthetics

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The PotoPoto Aesthetics

Established in 1951By French Mathematician and amateur artist

Pierre Lods

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Mode Muntu, Figures carrying water in a fish background,gouache on paper, 1973

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Mode Muntu, Slaved yoked together, gouache on paper, 1973

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Mode, Figures, gouache on cardboard, n.d

Jean-Bosco Kamba, Serpent and Birds, Gouache on wood, n.d.

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Roadside Art and a new Internationalism

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Unknown artist, Barber’s Sign—(Salon) shop display, enamel paints on wood

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Open display of the portraits of Christ, and prominent Ghanaian politiciansBy God Art Works, kumasi Ghana, 1978

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Cheri Samba, Why have I signed a contract?, acrylic on canvas, 1990

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Cheri Samba, (Zairian) Battle Against the Mosquitoes,Acrylic on canvas, 1990

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Tshibumba, Colonial Atrocities,Enamel on board. n.d

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Kane Kwei, Mercedes-Benz shaped coffin, enamel paint on wood, 1989

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Kane Kwei, (Ghanaian) Hen-shaped coffin, wood and enamel paint, 1989

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Kane Kwei, Cocoa-pod shaped coffin, enamel paints on wood, 1970

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Sunday Jack Akpan, installation—chief, soldiers, business man, Cement and enamel paints, 1993

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Sunday Jack Akpan,Portrait of a man in uniform(Nigerian Police)Cement and acrylic paints1989

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Sunday Jack Akpan,Heads,Cement, enamel paintsc.a. 1993

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Emile Guebehi, The Adultery, installation, painted wood, 1992

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An Ndebele woman painting the façadeOf her home.

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Francina Ndimande’s House, Mabhoko, South Africa, 1987

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Catholic Church painted by Francina Ndimande, Mabhoko, South Africa, 1987

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Francina Ndimande,Untitled, acrylic on canvas,1992

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Justus Akeredolu, installation--woman cooking, farmer, wood, n.d.

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Contemporary Benin Queen Mother’sBust presented by the Nigeria GovernmentTo President Jimmy Carter in 1997

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Fake Roped Vessel on a standAfter Igbo Ukwu, bronze, n.d.

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Ballpoint pen carved in the 1980Recycles traditional wood carving modes

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ModernismModernity

African/ Africanity/AfricanessExotic

AuthenticityCommodity (commodification)