The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures, vol. 5

Vol. 5 – Modern African Art and Culture, ANETA PAWŁOWSKA, ADAM DROZDOWSKI and AGNIESZKA KUCZYŃSKA (eds.)

Contents: Introduction; PART ONE THEORY: OLATUNJI ALABI OYESHILE, Re-Theorizing Indigenous African Art and Aesthetics for African Development: The Yoruba Example; FELIX O. OLATUNJI Art as an Integral Form of Development in Africa; ABEDALRAZAK AHMED AL-NASIRI Cultural Modernization in Zanzibar 1890–1939; PART TWO ARCHITECTURE: BLAZEJ CIARKOWSKI, Universal or Indigenous? Modernist Architecture in Africa; JULIA SOWIŃSKA–HEIM, Contemporary architecture of the African Continent and its Role in Building Cultural Identity; HAYDER NADHIM SHAKIR The Architecture in Zanzibar during the Period (1840–1890); PART THREE VISUAL ART: ANETA PAWŁOWSKA Joint Concepts of Primitivism and “Noble Savage” as Significant Inspiration for the Contemporary South African Artists; ALEKSANDRA ŁUKASZEWICZ ALCARAZ, De-construction, Haunting, and Non-normative Representations – Chosen Strategies in Artistic Research on Redefining Postcolonial Identities in the Context of the Republic of South Africa; HANNA RUBINKOWSKA-ANIOŁ, Antika – Ethiopian Airport Art as a Construction of Tradition; MAŁGORZATA SZUPEJKO Wanjiku Character – A Commentator on Social Reality and Political Events. Caricature in Kenya; PART FOUR AFRICAN ART IN WESTERN COLLECTIONS: ZYGMUNT L. OSTROWSKI History of Young Artist Discovered in Africa; ANDRZEJ JAJSZCZYK Review. Fascinating Contemporary African Art. Exhibition: Art/Afrique, le Nouvel Atelier.

 

Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, Warsaw – Toruń 2017

ISSN 2450-5692 (159 pp.)