Sunday, November 26, 2006

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora


Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora
Ann Laurie Farrell
Out on the 1 March, 2004

Book Description
This book showcases 12 artists from North, South, East, and West Africa who live and work in Western countries. The title refers to the artists’ practice of looking in the psychic terrain between Africa and the West, a terrain of shifting physical contexts, aesthetic ambitions and expressions.

Exhibition catalogue edited by Laurie Ann Farrell with contributions by Valentijn Byvanck, Allan deSouza, José António Fernandes Dias, Okwui Enwezor, Laurie Ann Farrell, Lauri Firstenberg, Salah Hassan, Kobena Mercer, Steven Nelson, Simon Njami, Edith-Marie Pasquier, John Peffer, Jérôme Sans, and Sue Williamson. Published by the Museum for African Art, New York and Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent, March, 2003. 180 pp.

2 comments:

upfromsumdirt said...

you have a very informative page, thank you!

Unknown said...

This art is nice and I like the way u have painted.